[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm working on a script which I hope to run on a web server. The web server
> belongs to someone else and I'm only renting the space. I have a cgi folder in
> which I currently run a .cgi executable for a bulletin board.
>
> What I am hoping to do is run a script continuously which checks for new e-
> mail at a POP account every few minutes. I do not have telnet access to the
> account.
>
> Can you suggest a "workaround" which might be appropriate? Perhaps
> setting the script with a .cgi extension and creating a web page with a
> Submit button that will get the script started? What might happen if I start
> the script once and someone clicks the Submit button again?
It will surely launch second instance of REBOL, that's the nature of CGI (if I
understand it correctly :-)
Well, I've heard something about .forward or so file put in user's directory,
which is gonna be called every time new mail arrives to the account. You could put
some rebol starting code there. Maybe Linux folks could clarify?
-pekr-
>
>
> The server is running Zeus on RedHat Linux.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ryan
