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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!no.such.domain!conrads From: conrads@no.such.domain (mypc) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Polling remote host for mail -- suggestions? Date: 18 Jun 1996 18:36:23 GMT Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4q6sv7$jlg@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <4q6hpt$31o_016@mypc.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.134 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] In article <4q6hpt$31o_016@mypc.neosoft.com>, Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote: >I'd like to use popclient to poll my ISP for my mail, say, every ten >minutes. Looking at the cron docs, it appears that it expects a list of >specific date/time parameters, or am I overlooking something? Can cron be >given a set of parameters that say "every ten minutes"? If not, then how >can I do this some other way? >If someone could just point me in the right direction, it would be greatly >appreciated. Nevermind! Found it! Conrad "Gotta stop asking dumb questions" Sabatier :-) -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads