Frank Wiles wrote:
3. Use can also use a simple config file with something like
Config::General. Your crons can update this data onto disk
and your mod_perl apps can simply read it in as a config file,
maybe using a short 5 minute cache to reduce disk reads.
This is what I would recommend. Update this file from the cron, read it
into global variables (so they will be persistent) in mod_perl once
every 5 minutes. (And note that this means every process will read them
every 5 minutes, not some kind of shared memory thing.)
Personally, I would use a database for this specific case, but I've used
this config file approach for data that I wanted to be easy to edit by hand.
- Perrin
