Well, the definition of "reasonable" depends on your system and
environment really. Doing a database query once a minute for new work
is no big deal, maybe even once a second, depending on how much other
stuff you've got going on. In fact, maybe don't worry about the query
for work at all: ch
Thanks Ned, and what about the case when it may be an unreasonable
interval?
is there any other way of interaction than crontab (eitherway, are
they any example
of this - as I've mentioned I am a complete newbie).
Thx.
On Sep 6, 10:03 pm, Ned Batchelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right:
You're right: making a crontab entry for each user's needs would be
cumbersome. But if you have a reasonable minimum interval (say 10
minutes), then write one cronjob that looks for all of the user's jobs
that need to be run. Then you have one crontab entry, and the rest of
the work is in yo
Hey'a I have a newbie question.
I want to execute an external (lets say python, but can be any)
program given a interval set by a user (which would be in the user
table). The external program would update the sql database.
I thought of doing this with a cronjob but as they may be a number of
use
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