linux mint - Schedule a cronjob everytime it is done

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.

Thank you

Answer

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:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do  ## Enter infinite loop
   sleep 5;   ## Wait for 5 seconds
   python -c 'print("hello world")'  ## Run your python command
done 

If you save that script as, for example, ~/run_python.sh and make it executable (chmod +x ~/run_python.sh), you can set it to run once on system boot using the @reboot prefix. Add this line to your crontab:

@reboot ~/run_python.sh

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 /etc/init.d.