On 7/8/2011 5:43 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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.
That's not going to give him atomic operations if the web/cron jobs hit
at the same time or a bunch of web users all click the update button at
once.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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