Cronjob every 30secs

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

> From: Tence T. George

> I wrote a python script using pysvn that checks my svn server 
> and updates/exports directorys on my ubuntu webserver. But, 
> now I need it to run every 30secs so that developers working 
> on the same project don't need to wait so long to see changes 
> done to the developmental side of the website.  I don't 
> really care for how many cpu cycles it uses up since the 
> machine is multicore comp.  I did some googling and most 
> sites say that crons can't do less than a minute.  I was just 
> wondering if anyone had a workaround for it.

Why can't you use sleep 30 in a shell script?  Then have the script kick
off your python script.  Both the sleep command and the python script
call just need to be in an endless loop.


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