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- From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Is cron going to get better?
- Message-ID: <5216@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 02:45:34 GMT
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- Garance A. Drosehn writes
- > jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes:
- > > What do you want from cron that you can't get from at?
- > > [...]
- > Granularity of checks, for one (though oneill@cs.sfu.ca just posted a
- rather
- > obvious solution for that: "use a sleep command in your script", which
- would
- > be OK, I guess).
- > [...]
- > I guess 'at' is OK, but I'd still rather have a classier cron.
-
- So would I, but if it's finer granularity you want,
- how 'bout changing the entry
- in crontab that controls how often "at" runs.
-
- 00,15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/lib/atrun
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