Timed Execution of a Script (second time lucky?)
Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
Fri Mar 18 11:48:30 EST 2005
Hi Jaqueline,
> On 3/18/05 7:56 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>> I'm playing with Revolution as a CGI engine with the scripts in
>> stacks. I'm wondering if there's a way to have Revolution executive
>> a script at specified intervals, for example, every Tuesday night at
>> ten o'clock.
> Rev CGIs start up and run when they are called, then execute, and then
> shut down. They don't stay running in between requests, so there would
> be no way for the CGI to check the time unless it happened to be
> running already for some other reason.
> I have a couple of CGIs that do things on a timed basis, and the way
> to implement this is to set up a cron job
HA, CRON job! Thank you very much :-)
> on the server that calls the CGI periodically. In your case, you would
> only need to set the cron job to execute once a week on Thursdays at
> 10 PM.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
Regards
Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de
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