Hi Jeremy, I tried using cron a couple of months ago and ran into the following problem:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28383 I'd like to know if it's just me or if this happens for you as well. Cheers, -Alex --- Jeremy Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I am playing with o.a.c.components.cron.TestCronJob. > > I am using it to call a pipeline once per day that > runs a FlowScript > that scours a database for jobs that need doing and > sending out email > reminders. > > The FlowScript calls one pipeline to generate the > email body via > 'cocoon.processPipelineTo' and another pipeline to > generate the cron > log written by TestCronJob via 'cocoon.sendPage'. > > It works really well, many thanks !!!!!! > > > Before starting this, I was expecting to have to > write my own CronJob, > but I found that TestCronJob did everything I needed > (call a pipeline, > log the output). > > However, there is something I do not understand > about TestCronJob. > > It sleeps after it has done the job, for a > configurable amount of time. > > try { > Thread.sleep(m_sleep); > } catch (final InterruptedException ie) { > //getLogger().error("CronJob " + name + " > interrupted", ie); > } > > Is it doing this because it is a test class and this > is providing some > kind of debug information, or is it doing it because > this is something > that a CronJob needs to do, and I would need to take > care to set the > sleep parameter appropriately. > > Thanks for any suggestions > > regards Jeremy > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pkcs7-signature name=smime.p7s
