Thanks Ned, and what about the case when it may be an unreasonable interval? is there any other way of interaction than crontab (eitherway, are they any example of this - as I've mentioned I am a complete newbie).
Thx. On Sep 6, 10:03 pm, Ned Batchelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right: making a crontab entry for each user's needs would be > cumbersome. But if you have a reasonable minimum interval (say 10 > minutes), then write one cronjob that looks for all of the user's jobs > that need to be run. Then you have one crontab entry, and the rest of > the work is in your Python code. > > --Ned.http://nedbatchelder.com > > > > David wrote: > > Hey'a I have a newbie question. > > > I want to execute an external (lets say python, but can be any) > > program given a interval set by a user (which would be in the user > > table). The external program would update the sql database. > > > I thought of doing this with a cronjob but as they may be a number of > > users with a different set intervals, and this can be changed at any > > time by the user so I don't feel as a cronjob would be seamless. > > > How would I go about accomplishing something like this? does anyone > > have any pointers, tutorials, advise.... > > > Thanks, > > D. > > -- > Ned Batchelder,http://nedbatchelder.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
