On 11/11/2010 03:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> put the job in a loop like...
>
> while true; do
> your stuff
> sleep 60
> done;
Sure, but you also need to start the loop and make sure it doesn't die.
You could use a script like this to repeat a script and then wait:
---
#!/bin/sh
delay="$1"
shift
"${@}"
at now + "$delay" <<EOF
"$0" "$delay" "${@}"
EOF
---
Run "repeat.sh 5m /path/to/whatever -args". The script will run that
script and args, then schedule itself to run again in at. The script
takes care of both running the job you specify and inserting itself into
the system's scheduler.