Re: Cron

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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:47:07PM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote:
> Howell Evans wrote:
> >You can not make cron more granuler(sp?)  then ever 5 mins.
> 
> Quote from 'man cron':
> "cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs,  check-
> ing  each  command  to  see  if it should be run in the current minute."
> 
> So cron's granularity (++sp?) is one minute.
> 

That's amazing; I would have expected cron to have information to know 
a priori when to wake up, rather than "polling"...

At the least it could optimize out obviously simple cases...