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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;
    }

=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser

"94 outdated ports on the box,
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 Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done,
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