Using the crontab is great, but there are other tools out there on Leopard that do something similar to crontab and on Leopard, its called launchd.

To create a new entry, make a new file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.laptop.getmail.plist with the content of:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>net.laptop.getmail</string>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>aaron</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/your_user_name/bin/script.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartInterval</key>
<integer>30</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

then execute:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.laptop.getmail.plist

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