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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
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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  :-)

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