Re: crontab help

put a sleep(300); at the end of your while() loop - I did this on my mass mailer and it worked like a charm. --Joe On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53:10PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote: > hi there. > > is there a way to tell crontab to do: > > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour".. > > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to chunk into > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour. > > Thanks for any help. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Stump, PHP Hacker, joestump98@yahoo.com -o) http://www.miester.org http://www.care2.com /\\ "It's not enough to succeed. Everyone else must fail" -- Larry Ellison _\_V -------------------------------------------------------------------------------