[ale] cron question...

[Robert L Harris]

> 
> 
> Is there a way to force your personal crontabs to run?  I'm doing perl
> webpage stuff, and I'd like to get immediate results sometimes instead of
> waiting for the cron to come around.  I'm currently doing this by copying
> my crontab entry to a bash script, but this is not the best solution, or
> at least I think it isn't.  Anybody?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

What I do is duplicate the line and change it so it runs every 10-20 mins
depending on what I'm working on.  so it would be
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * * <command> 
to run <command> every 10 mins....  And that way you get an "Actual Crontab"
run...

Robert

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