Alternative to Crontab

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 25 November 2007, jenix wrote:
> "I give up....    You're still not answering questions."
>
> Bruce, I appreciate the effort but you're going on about alot of stuff that
> seems irrelevant. 

>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?

Not to belabor the point, because I've said about all I can on this subject, 
but please re-read the paragraph above which was your original post.

ISP  -   people usually think of I-net access here, not web hosting

fetch - usually implies *download* a file from a remote site - aka 'pulling' 
the file to your local machine.

remote site -  another implication to fetch...   go a download a file.

So we were all led to believe you  1) had an internet hookup to an ISP and 
that was it,  2) You wanted to go <somewhere, not nec the ISP> to get a file, 
and 3)  you were running cron on your own machine.  No other hosts involved.