RE: executing a cgi-script continously

At 05:01 PM 8/17/2001 +, you wrote: From: Morbus Iff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: executing a cgi-script continously >>Is it possible to have a CGI script that, at the end of doing all the > >James Kelty

RE: executing a cgi-script continously

... If you want the screen to "continually" refresh that is a different issue ... jwm -Original Message- From: Simon K. Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 16, 2001 18:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: executing a cgi-script continously Hey all, Is it possible to hav

RE: executing a cgi-script continously

Assuming of course that we are on a *NIX system. -James -Original Message- From: James Kelty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: executing a cgi-script continously While I agree that having cron access does vary, your

RE: executing a cgi-script continously

cript would work too. Basically, there are, at least, 3 ways of doing this, but one isn't exactly better that the next. -James -Original Message- From: Morbus Iff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: executing a

RE: executing a cgi-script continously

>>Is it possible to have a CGI script that, at the end of doing all the > >James Keltys idea using a perl script in cron using LWP::Simple against the >CGI in question sounds the most obvious answer How do you figure? He wants to run it after the script is done, not every X minutes, like a cron.

Re: executing a cgi-script continously

>Is it possible to have a CGI script that, at the end of doing all the >stuff you Sure. You could spit out a Content-type header and then a Location: header that referred back to the script. -- Morbus Iff ( i am your scary godmother ) http://www.disobey.com/ && http://www.gamegrene.com/ please m

RE: executing a cgi-script continously

Why not use a crontab or atd type file? -James -Original Message- From: Simon K. Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: executing a cgi-script continously Hey all, Is it possible to have a CGI script that, at the end of

executing a cgi-script continously

Hey all, Is it possible to have a CGI script that, at the end of doing all the stuff you want, re-executes itself (executes itself again)? I'm writing this for a CGI script that uses a DBI script to connect and return queries from a Mysql database. Many thanks! = ##