On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:07:19PM -0000, Harish Mallipeddi wrote: > Is there a way to do this by resorting to a solution within the django > framework and not some OS-level solution like cron jobs on Linux?
As has been mentioned, using cron (or cron-like) to schedule running a Python script is a great solution... but there are other ways that might work for you too. 1) Within your application, write a "view" that doesn't necessarily view anything, but instead it does all of the functionality you need for this repetitive task... then... Still using cron functionality, you have some machine somewhere in the world (or on your internal LAN with appropriate ACLs and firewalling) go to a specific URL that executes that "view" to do the repetitive tasks. or 2) Also within your application, write a global function that (a) immediately checks to see if it's the first time it's invoked each day (or whatever interval), and then, if it is the first time, (b) does all of the repetitive tasks... This translates to: the first click within the desired interval automatically performs the pending repetitive tasks. Note: this is not always a good solution (but can sometimes be fine), since you might have tasks that need to be done every interval even if no one clicks your site, or the tasks run a long time, etc. This can be combined with #1 above in that the URL in #1 above would only need to be some regular URL into your application since ANY click to your application will do the repetitive task once each interval. -- Glenn Tenney CISSP CISM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
