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Scheduling

Karla · 2000-10-03 23:30:00

I need to have a little script run on my webserver that counts down over a week and once a week is up it triggers an event. Anyhoo, I know the best way to go about doing this would be cron, but unfortunately I ain't got cron access So my question is: Would it be ok to write a lil proggy to send an ALARM signal after 604800…

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04-10-2000 12:30am

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Karla

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I need to have a little script run on my webserver that counts down over a week and once a week is up it triggers an event.

Anyhoo, I know the best way to go about doing this would be cron, but unfortunately I ain't got cron access

So my question is:
Would it be ok to write a lil proggy to send an ALARM signal after 604800 secs and write a lil handler for it?

Would it be a Bad Thing to do?

Has anyone got any other ways around the no-cron-access problem?

Cheers

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#2 04-10-2000 9:50am
LoLth

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Prolly a stupid suggestion but:

could you use something like Schedule Plus,
have it set for a weekly event,
the event sets a batch running that will initiate the weekly occurrance you're talking about.

just an idea.

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#3 04-10-2000 10:01am
Gavin

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Don't know, but you might be able to use crontab -e which is personal crontab
Also there is AT

Gav

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