Hello Tim,

On Dec 12, 2:58 pm, Tim Daniel <redarrow...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Solution A: Have a datetime field with an expiry date and say every 10
> minutes a cron job checks the DB table for expired entries and
> performs the programed action.

I've used solution A in combination with custom management commands.
Works pretty well.  I send emails to the user for notification.

> Solution B: Have an event triggered cronjob that only executes once
> and is created from Django(Python), after the 2 hours passed it
> performs the programmed action only on the required entry.
>
> So how can I implement solution B? Is there a posibility to create a
> cron on a user action that executes only one time?

You might see if you could use the at command in combination with a
custom management command.

Let us know if you go with B and how it turns out.

Toodle-loooooooooo..........
creecode

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