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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