would please explain little but whts cron, and how it would help me, i am
also searching it on perl.com
thanks for reply.
regards,
--ahmed
>From: Gabriel Kihlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Ahmed Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: How to implement Daemon?
>Date: 14 Mar 2001 09:04:32 +0100
>
>
>You want cron(8)
>
>man 8 cron
>man 1 crontab
>
>
>"Ahmed Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hellow Sir/Madam,
> >
> > My mahine:
> > Architecture: x86 family
> > RAM : 256 Mb
> > OS : Linux 6.2
> >
> > Requirement:
> > I want to create a daemon that would execute some cgi-scripts, once a
>day.
> >
> >
> > What to choose?
> >
> > As a result of my research i found that there might be two ways to
>develop a daemon;
> >
> > a. Using network (socket) programming to establish a server and client.
>I found that it will not be feasible because my daemon would work on single
>machine so there is no need for a client/server. Also the server keep
>listening to a certain port.
> >
> > b. Another idea is to use IPC. I think that if i would create a process
>(daemon) and register it with the schedular of LInux Kernel so that process
>(daemon)activated once a day and could execute desired script. After
>executing the desired script the (process) daemon would again become IDLE,
>so minimizing the chances of eating CPU Time.
> >
> > Any Help or Suggestion?
> >
> > regards,
> > --ahmed
>
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>
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