Re: Proposal: a "cron" interface for httpd

[Jim Jagielski]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Akins, Brian wrote:

The way I do this is simple and primitive. If I have an action I need to be

ran, I do something like:

<Location /my-cron-job-thing>
   SetHandler MyCronJobThing
   Allow from 127.0.0.1
   Deny from All
</Location>


And then in cron

* * * * * curl http://localhost/my-cron-job-thing > /logs/ cronjob.log 2>&1

I've done something similar with mutexed internal subrequests
that trigger a specific handler...