Re: Executing a Script every hour

[Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:11:19PM +0200, 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.

Use either the system crontab (/etc/crontab) or set up your own
personal one.

	man crontab

Kenward
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