Re: Emulate(?) the crontab

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Hi,

Mário Gamito wrote:
> 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
> 
> It represents no stress at all for the server.
> 
> Meanwhile, i've asked the support to insert the line in the crontab.
> 
> Now, they want me to pay 29 euros a month for that line in the crontab.
> It's outrageous. It's twice than the hosting cost itself.
> 
> I wonder if there could be written a script (bash, perl, python), that
> *without crontab* could run the command I need.

Another option is to use a web based cron service.  Search on google for
webcron.  I haven't used any of them so I can't comment on how well they
work.

Cheers

Adam

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