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run a shell without cron possible?
I have a shell I would like to execute every 5 minutes or so. But, my ISP does not support cron. Is it possible to run a script every so often without using cron?
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You could use a perl script to do it then and leave it running in the background.

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while [0 ]; do <script_name_here>; sleep 300; done &

do not forget the last "&" as it will put your loop in the background.
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