Re: cron for mod_perl?

[Pierre Phaneuf]

Stas Bekman wrote:

> I might be barking at the wrong tree, but why cron? Why don't you use
> at(1). you don't need to parse crontab for that, and you can spawn
> processes with whatever intervals on demand. basically you can call
> at(1) itself at the end of at() so you can do the same as crontab.

Yes, at is much better suited, but you still have the problem of forking
under Apache (possible, but hairy) and systems where there is no at.

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