Cronjob every 30secs

[Tence T. George]

Okay, I guess I can go with the endless shell script and I wouldn't need the
cron for it either.  I might make it into startup script launched as a
particular user.  Thanks guys



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> Tence T. George wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > From,
> > Tence T. George
> >
> >
>
> Use a shell script with an infinite loop and a 30 second sleep (or 25
> second sleep, assuming the process takes 5 seconds to complete.)
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> while [ 1 ]
> do
>        # Your code goes here
>
>        # Modify sleep time (in seconds) as needed below
>        sleep 2
> done
>
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