How to flush output to disk?

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In article <606 at caldwr.UUCP> rfinch at caldwr.UUCP (Ralph Finch) writes:
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>Is there any way to force the output to be flushed more often, say every 15-30 minutes?
>
>-- 
>Ralph Finch

The following, untested, script should do it. (I know using 'sync' is a little heavy 
handed, but it gets the job done.)

#! /bin/csh

while (1)
	sleep 900
	sync
end




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