Wiggins d Anconia wrote:
> cron can be installed as part of the Cygwin distro, not sure about
> other ways. The M$ products come with a scheduler as well, but you
> have now exhausted my knowledge of it ;-)
The MS "at" service blows huge chunks.
There is a cron for Windows at http://cronw.so
>
> My main concern was that the script would die from SIGALARM. I'm
testing on
> and XP box and using the script on a FreeBSD box. How can I get the cron
> function on my XP box?
>
In general this is a bad idea, aka developing/testing on a different
platform than where it will run eventuall
My main concern was that the script would die from SIGALARM. I'm testing on
and XP box and using the script on a FreeBSD box. How can I get the cron
function on my XP box?
Also I have to get admin permission for cron jobs. Which I don't think will
be a problem.
It's not important that th
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a script which fetches data every hour. I thought instead of
> using cron which is platform dependent, to use sleep and a goto
statement. Is
> there any downfalls to this?
Sure, all of the differences between a one-off script and a constantly
running program. cro
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a script which fetches data every hour. I thought instead of
> using cron which is platform dependent, to use sleep and a goto statement. Is
> there any downfalls to this?
Other downfalls:
- Cron has automatic e-
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a script which fetches data every hour. I thought instead of
> using cron which is platform dependent, to use sleep and a goto statement. Is
> there any downfalls to this?
Yes.
With sleep, once the machine is res
Hi all,
I'm writing a script which fetches data every hour. I thought instead of
using cron which is platform dependent, to use sleep and a goto statement. Is
there any downfalls to this?
At the start of the script I check to see if it was ran in the previous hour.
BEGINNING:
if(open(TIMECHEC
