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From: "Adam T. Bowen" <adam.bowen@connectinternetsolutions.com>
To: "Mário Gamito" <gamito@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Emulate(?) the crontab
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:41:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A4B4E2.1000507@connectinternetsolutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A3EDF7.7000105@gmail.com>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-09 19:33 Emulate(?) the crontab Mário Gamito
     [not found] ` <430c159a0701091142t510790fdkd9c7049ff162f6d3@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-09 19:47   ` Atishay Kumar
2007-01-09 20:47 ` Jens Knoell
2007-01-09 21:34 ` Benoît Rouits
2007-01-10  0:27 ` terry white
2007-01-10  9:41 ` Adam T. Bowen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-10 11:05 Adrian C.
2007-01-10 11:16 Jean M. Bouchara
2007-01-10 12:09 ` Adrian C.
2007-01-10 12:43   ` Adam T. Bowen

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