Cron job every few minutes ??

[Vincent Trouilliez]

I woud like to log CPU temperature every 5 minutes or so.
I know abou the 'cron' daemon that runs dozen of jobs, but looking at
directories in /etc/ and the crontab file, it looks as if you can run
jobs every month, week, day, hour, but not every xx minutes.

Am I wrong, can cron be set up to do that ?
I read the cron an page, and it says that it checks the cron files every
minutes, so I guess that at least potentially, it is possible.

If not, then is there another program in Ubuntu that could be used ? Or
some other program I could get from Synpatic ??

Thanks...


Vince