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From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: Re: a better cron?
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Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 04:38:00 GMT
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Jon Cargille (jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu) wrote:
: */5     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun

: And change it to begin with "*/1" to get 1 minute granularity.

I would imagine stars straight across would do the same thing if your
cron doesn't understand the '/' option.

*     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun
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