From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adam T. Bowen" Subject: Re: Emulate(?) the crontab Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:41:54 +0000 Message-ID: <45A4B4E2.1000507@connectinternetsolutions.com> References: <45A3EDF7.7000105@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45A3EDF7.7000105@gmail.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Gamito?= Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hi, M=E1rio Gamito wrote: > The agregator software must run a one line command every 15 minutes t= o > rebuild the index.html of the site. >=20 > The command is > #planet.py geek/fancy/config.ini >=20 > It represents no stress at all for the server. >=20 > Meanwhile, i've asked the support to insert the line in the crontab. >=20 > Now, they want me to pay 29 euros a month for that line in the cronta= b. > It's outrageous. It's twice than the hosting cost itself. >=20 > I wonder if there could be written a script (bash, perl, python), tha= t > *without crontab* could run the command I need. Another option is to use a web based cron service. Search on google fo= r webcron. I haven't used any of them so I can't comment on how well the= y work. Cheers Adam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html