Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Friday, July 08, 2011 11:05 PM +0100 Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Is this something you could do with AJAX? > > You mean JavaScript on the web client? That won't do anything for me on the > server. > > Note that the problem isn't strictly a web server problem. That just > happens to be the place where I want to initially trigger this from. But I > might also do it from a shell login. What I need is a way to kick a > service so it doesn't wait for the next periodic interval to run a script. > It would also be useful to have the "kick" block until the script finishes > so I know when the results are available. Read about Webmin. it's web interface for Linux administration that has as a part the cron job manipulation. You can change parameters disable/enable and run at once any cron job or service. Ljubomir _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos