Andi Clemens wrote: > Hi, > > what is the main difference of running a python program as a daemon or > as a cronjob? > > I have written a program at work that checks all internet connections of > our failover sites and saves the results in a MySQL-database. > The whole program is made with django (a webframework) so I had to be > sure that the "checking procedure" is done every 30 minutes.
With a daemon, you might be able to flag up problems earlier than the periodic check would allow. On the other hand, you *know* that cron will run every 30 minutes. Do you *know* that your daemon will not stop running somehow? I suppose I put more trust in cron than I do in myself. Regards, Andy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
