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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next prev 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]
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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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