Re: Is cron going to get better?

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From: Dan Danz
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:45

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Garance A. Drosehn writes
> jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes:
> > What do you want from cron that you can't get from at?
> > [...]
> Granularity of checks, for one (though oneill@cs.sfu.ca just posted a  
rather  
> obvious solution for that: "use a sleep command in your script", which  
would  
> be OK, I guess).
> [...]
> I guess 'at' is OK, but I'd still rather have a classier cron.

So would I, but if it's finer granularity you want, 
how 'bout changing the entry
in crontab that controls how often "at" runs.

00,15,30,45 * * * *     root /usr/lib/atrun

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