Re: Executing a Script every hour

From: Kenward Vaughan (kay_jay_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/30/03

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    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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