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Posted by shimmyshack on 06/05/07 19:02
On Jun 5, 6:43 pm, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> Jon Slaughter wrote:
> > Now is that really the only way to schedule stuff in a linux enviroment?
>
> Cron? No -- there is also "at", but that's more suited towards scheduling a
> one-off event in the future.
>
> Or you could write a system service that sleeps for X seconds, wakes up,
> does its job and then sleeps again.
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
> [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 102 days, 1:25.]
>
> URLs in demiblog
> http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/05/31/demiblog-urls/
you could also write a php script that is behind some protection,
which a cron on a machine you do have access to executes.
http://server.com/doit/job63.php?log=secure_email or whatever.
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