LiveCode equivalent to 'cron' for automated background functions?

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Tweedly wrote:

 > On 28/11/2018 20:45, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >>
 >> FWIW, cron is for periodic tasks.  If you need a one-off at a
 >> specific time see at.
 >>
 >> But can be managed from the command line, which means you can drive
 >> them from LC if needed through the shell function.
 >>
 > And. conversely, you can drive LC from cron - i.e. to schedule
 > something regular, just use cron, and make the cron task be something
 > like
 >
 > wget https://mydomain.com/index.lc/domynightlytask
 >
 > so you get to script the task in your usual way (e.g. within
 > revigniter), and do the scheduling with cron (generally accessible
 > from cPanel as well as shell).

And for local tasks:

    ~/somescript.lc

...where line 1 of somescript.lc is:

#!/path/to/your/copy/of/livecodeserver


Or launch the engine and specify the script in the command line:

~/livecode-server  somescript.lc


Lots of flexibility mixing and matching LC with other tools to make the 
best use of what each brings to the table.

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