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Re: Executing a Script every hour



On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:11, Christof Hurschler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do 
> daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian.
> 
> Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd 
> like to run the swendeleter.pl script automatically every so often to keep my 
> mailbox from overfiling.

Actually, cron will let you start a job by minute.

Take a look at:

man crontab
man 5 crontab

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