Re: Executing a Script every hour
Christof Hurschler <hurschler@gmx.de> writes:
> 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.
Use crontab(1), like on every other Unix. :-) If you need some other
frequency for a package or system script, you could drop a crontab
fragment in /etc/cron.d; see crontab(5) for the format, and pretend
these are parts of the system crontab file.
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