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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