Cronjob in seconds
Hi everyone,
Im using cPanel (obviously) and I'd like to be able to do a cron job
that happens every X second. This is for a short time gaming, so
aswers that you dont need to do it wont work for me =)
The user interface allows to do a cron job to call a PHP script
wonderfully, but the minimum time is 1 minute, and Id like to be
able to call the script every 10 seconds.
Anyway to achieve this?
thanks in advance!
It is my understanding that CentOS, RHEL and FreeBSD all only support 5 time fields meaning they can only be configured to go as granular as the time interval of minutes.Originally Posted by SystemJay
Additionally, it is considered poor practice to call a cron job so frequently as it has the potential to add noticeable burden to a shared hosting server. You may wish to consider an alternative method for providing up-to-date information such as a client-side AJAX script interacting with your PHP application.
Contrary to what CpanelDavidG said, there is in fact several ways to provide cronjob functionality in seconds though I would not recommend it for most general purposes and that also includes games in particular.
However, with that said, one of the easiest ways to do this is to call your script every minute (* * * * *) and then loop it 5 times with a 10 second sleep delay between each loop and that will give you every 10 seconds.
Now going to the other side of the coin so to speak, I agree with CpanelDavidG wholeheartedly in his recommendation for you to drop the cronjob for this and switch over to a Javascript/AJAX interface to push realtime data to client connections as this would be a much better solution.
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