cron jobs and LC server

[Simon Smith]

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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