Re: cron jobs and LC server

2014-10-06 Thread jbv
Hi Simon Thanks for your reply. Yes, security and server load are my main concerns. It is a dedicated server, but there are already quite a few cron jobs running on it. Therefore I thought it wasn't a good idea to add another one that would simply exit most of the time... jbv > Hi > > It should

Re: cron jobs and LC server

2014-10-06 Thread Simon Smith
Hi It should be possible to that, my concern would be that for the LC script to create remove the cron scripts, it would need sufficiant privlages to do so, which is not great for security. Although there a few ways around this, it can be more trouble than its worth. It would also depend on how ev

cron jobs and LC server

2014-10-06 Thread jbv
Hi list I need to run a cron job every 5 minutes to process some data on a server and the job needs to stop when all data are processed. The thing is : the data will be posted only once or twice a month and it is impossible to predict when. So my idea is to set up a cron job automatically when need