[CentOS] minute cron

[Les Bell]

On 3/04/2012 5:16 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> CentOs has choosen anacron as default cron daemon.
> I did not look further about the reasons, I think there are some good 
> reasons.

anacron is used on desktops and laptops which are not powered 24/7 - it
executes the missed cron jobs soon after boot. It doesn't replace the
regular crond, which executes jobs if the machine is up at the scheduled
time.
> 
> I want to create a minute based set of scripts.
> 
> No much precision required, once a minute more or less 20 sec is OK.
> 

If it's that rough, then see man 1 sleep.

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