Cron job every few minutes ??

[Shango Oluwa]

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 21:05 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> 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 ??

Try Gkrellm from synaptic...

It will give you a diskreet desktop display outlining cpu temp, usage,
net access, proc files, etc configurable to whatever interval you want:
60 seconds x 5, surely...

Shango