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It's possible to set the cron job tool in my website cpanel 'VPS Hosting' to execute php file every 30 second
I am using it to execute php file once at a minute *,*,*,*,* but I need to set it to run twice in minute
I have tried 1/2,*,*,*,* but it's not working.

Ashraf Hefny
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  • To keep it precisely, not a dublicate; it's 30 seconds not 15 ;-) ^^ – chaos May 26 '15 at 11:01
  • i provide a different answer than given here or at the every-15-second question. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/205717/105631 – Otheus May 26 '15 at 16:22

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You can't exec cron with increment less than minute. You can search for other schedulers. Or consider to create daemon which will have internal scheduler for such interval

Romeo Ninov
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Why don't you run a shell script which runs your command, like:

#!/bin/tcsh -f
start:
mycommand >> /tmp/output
sleep 30
goto start

As someone else said, cron has a granularity of 1 minute.

Ned64
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  • Ned64, IMHO will be good to create your script proof from more than one run. Otherwise will become very interesting DoS tool :) – Romeo Ninov May 26 '15 at 10:53
  • Romeo, Yes, that would be a nice feature. If the command is executed manually, though, and not called by cron, it could be OK. Let's see what Ashraf thinks. – Ned64 May 26 '15 at 10:55
  • If you want an easy way to proof the script from running with multiple instances, you can use flock as is demonstrated here. This is Bash of course. – Justin Frahm May 26 '15 at 11:19