Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:03:26 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOW TO USE C-R-O-N????? Message-ID: <87oexon329.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <1544264640.20030913150912@mail.ru> (intraden@mail.ru's message of "Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:09:12 %2B0400") References: <1544264640.20030913150912@mail.ru>
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At 2003-09-13T11:09:12Z, Denis <intraden@mail.ru> writes:
> Does anybody can show me how i can use Cron??? For example, I want to
> start: /usr/bin/perl /usr/scripts/my.pl every 30 seconds. Can i to do it?
You really don't want to do it that way. You probably want to wrap your
script with something like:
use Time::HiRes qw( sleep );
while (1)
{
... rest of your program ...
sleep .5;
}
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Kirk Strauser
"94 outdated ports on the box,
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