I have a cronjon which runs every 48 hours. But ideally what I want is that it must start running as soon as it stops. Can this be done? It is an sh script consisting of a python command. I am using Linux Mint 13.
One thing you could do is run the python command in an infinite loop, and then run the script once using cron. That way the script will be run again each time it finishes:
If you save that script as, for example,
So, the BASH script will start on system boot and it will wait 5 seconds, run the python command and then keep doing so indefinitely.
A better, or at least more *nixy, way of doing this would be to add script to