LiveCode equivalent to 'cron' for automated background functions?

[Mike Kerner]

@tom
Yeah, that was a nifty demonstration of how to get around
single-threadedness, especially after Mark and I had been talking about
that very topic for a week or so.  I was thinking that it would be cool to
attach various LC externals and libraries to make a robust way to implement
some better fault tolerance.

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 3:49 AM Keith Clarke via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the really useful responses Richard, Alex & Tom - great to know
> the art of the possible.
> I think most of my current use cases will be supported by send with time,
> as they’re more lightweight ’tick-over’ activities than big batch jobs.
> Best,
> Keith
>
> > On 28 Nov 2018, at 21:51, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Richard Gaskin
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