running cronjobs more often than 1/minute?

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:48:33 PDT 2004


Quoth Net Llama!:
> A few months back, iremember someone wanted to run a cronjob more often
> than once per minute, and they found some kind of daemon that was capable
> of this.  I'm searching the list archives, and Google and can't find what
> it is.  Anyone remember?

Hm. I'm not sure (most) cron daemons are capable for resolution finer
than 60 seconds. You'd be better off coding up some low priority
task that runs every N seconds in the background...

Kurt
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