Alternative to Crontab

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 25 November 2007, jenix wrote:
> "What do you use as a command in your crontab  to go get the file?"
>
> I'm not using cron. I could if it was allowed every minute. Assume the file
> is changing constantly and I need to grab it at least every minute. The
> data being grabbed is irrelevant, just the process or method is what I'm
> looking for. Crontab would do just fine if I could run it every minute.

Well, we're getting no where with this.

I still say the activity is what they are watching and there is not much of a 
way around that unless you can cut down on the activity.

And I don't even know what you're using to go get the file, and it would also 
be nice to know, on average, how often does the file change... etc etc etc.

Not sure there is a way around this other than to get a different ISP.  I've 
never heard of such a restriction.