Re: Emulate(?) the crontab

It bounced back..hence sending again

On 1/10/07, Atishay Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes Mario, I think you can do it.
>
> All you need to write a shell script which will wait run this command in a loop. The should contain logic to wait for 15 mins for every iteration.
>
> example
>
> while true
>       do
>              command
>              sleep 37  # Put whatever time you want. It should 15*60 for 15 mins.
>      done
>
>
> I hope that helps
>
> cheers/atishay
>
>
>
> On 1/10/07,  Mário Gamito <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> > I have this blog agregator in http://www.planetgeek.org
> >
> > It is hosted, i. e., i'm paying for the hosting.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Warm Regards,
> > Mário Gamito
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>
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> Atishay Kumar



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