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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!oka.cs.wisc.edu!jcargill From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: a better cron? Date: 30 Apr 1994 18:04:16 GMT Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2pu6j0$49h@spool.cs.wisc.edu> References: <1994Apr30.000903.24496@pegasus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oka.cs.wisc.edu In article <1994Apr30.000903.24496@pegasus.com>, Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com> wrote: >Aloha, is there a better cron around somewhere that might be adapted >to xBSD? I'm very used to the cron that has atrun built into it. > >The `at' granularity of 10 minutes makes it much less useful. Even my >old ISC unix has 1 minute granularity. > > >-- >Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com You should be able to fix this just by changing the "atrun" line in your /etc/crontab. Look for a line like the following: */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun And change it to begin with "*/1" to get 1 minute granularity. On second thought, you didn't specify what version of *BSD you're running. The answer I've given applies to FreeBSD-1.1 Gamma. I'm not sure about older version. So if the above doesn't work for you, another answer is to upgrade to FreeBSD-1.1, then change the atrun line in /etc/crontab... ;-) Hope this helps, Jon -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu Want your .sig compressed? Reasonable rates and fast turnaround. Call today!