Hi Mario
On 01/09/2007 12:33 PM, Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
I have this blog agregator in http://www.planetgeek.org
The agregator software must run a one line command every 15 minutes to
rebuild the index.html of the site.
The command is
#planet.py geek/fancy/config.ini
I wonder if there could be written a script (bash, perl, python), that
*without crontab* could run the command I need.
Yes and no. You could - depending on the hosting solution - write a
script that runs in an endless loop and does a sleep() and set it as a
background process. The big issue there is that a server reboot will
kill that process. There are sneaky ways around that, like for example
checking if the process is running - each time a user hits your page, a
script launches to see if the endless job is running. If not - restart it.
Alternatively if you have shell access you can run a timed process on a
different machine which for example uses SSH to hop on to the host, runs
the process and backs off. If you have a server or 24/7 machine at home
for example that would work just fine.
Either solution would be reasonably feasible.
Jen
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