Re: Executing a Script every hour

[JG <j2003gi@yahoo.es>]

Hi,

Christof Hurschler <hurschler@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.

Put a crontab-like file in /etc/cron.d/ 

See 

$ man cron

under the section "DEBIAN SPECIFIC"

Hope this helps,

Jaume

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