Re: Emulate(?) the crontab
"Adam T. Bowen" <[email protected]>
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html