cron jobs and LC server

[jbv at souslelogo.com]

Hi Simon

Thanks for your reply.
Yes, security and server load are my main concerns.
It is a dedicated server, but there are already quite a few cron jobs
running on it. Therefore I thought it wasn't a good idea to add another
one that would simply exit most of the time...

jbv

> Hi
>
> It should be possible to that, my concern would be that for the LC script
> to create remove the cron scripts, it would need sufficiant privlages to
> do
> so, which is not great for security. Although there a few ways around
> this,
> it can be more trouble than its worth. It would also depend on how
> everything is being hosted. e.g. on shared hosting, this probably would
> not
> be possible.
>
> I would just set the cron script and leave it to every 5 minutes - it will
> make your life much simpler. If there is no data to process, then the
> script can exit and do nothing etc. Its affect on server load will be
> negligible.
>
> Simon
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:12 AM, <jbv at souslelogo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi list
>> I need to run a cron job every 5 minutes to process
>> some data on a server and the job needs to stop when
>> all data are processed. The thing is : the data will be
>> posted only once or twice a month and it is impossible
>> to predict when.
>> So my idea is to set up a cron job automatically when
>> needed and remove it when all data are processed.
>>
>> I found the following tutorial :
>> http://www.thesitewizard.com/general/set-cron-job.shtml
>> Before I make a big mistake I thought it would be wise to
>> ask specialists on this list if it would be safe to do that from
>> within a LC server script...
>> The idea is : a specific LC script would be used to set up and
>> remove the cron, which in turn would trigger another script
>> every 5 min to process data.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> jbv
>>
>>
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