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Date:      Sun, 05 Mar 2000 19:21:18 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@ppp-207-193-2-190.kscymo.swbell.net>
To:        bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org (Bhishan Hemrajani)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: run every 10 seconds
Message-ID:  <200003060121.TAA08866@ppp-207-193-2-190.kscymo.swbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <200003052349.PAA01127@cytosine.dhs.org>

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> I was wondering if you could schedule a program to run
> every 10 seconds. I tried to do this with cron, but as
> far as I know, you can only have it run once a minute.
> 
> Please help.

maybe something like this?

int main(void)
{
  .
  .
  .
  while(1)
    {
      if (!fork()) return(exec("whatever"));

      sleep(10);
    }
}

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