Alternative to Crontab

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007, jenix wrote:
>
>Hi, my ISP does not allow cron to be run less than every 5 minutes. I need to
>fetch a (dynamic) file from a remote site every minute or whenever it
>changes. What alternatives are available to achieve this? 

One could write a simple python or perl script that did this in a
loop using sleep() to do the times.

#!/usr/bin/env python
from time import sleep

while True:
    do_something()
    sleep(1)

# end of script

Bill
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