On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:14:18PM +0200, Bas Schulte wrote: > Hi, > > On 30-apr-05, at 1:27, Rodney Rindels wrote: > > >But. Since I Noticed Rocco mentions more than once the fact that some > >things are better left to cron.. I Thought I would get the more > >experience POE users opinion on this one. > > You can combine cron and POE nicely, I just did it in a scheduler-like > application. It's a POE app with delayed events etc.. It gets it's > schedule from a database table, those entries are converted to cron > lines (e.g. "*/5 1 0 0 0"), these lines are fed to > DateTime::Event::Cron that calculates the timestamp of the "next > interesting" datetime. > > Every 5 or so seconds, I re-scan the database tables to see if there > were schedule changes, and if so, adjust that "next interesting" > datetime. > > When the "next interesting" time has come, I start the specified task > (in my case, I open a tcp/ip network connection to a local control > server, also a POE app, and tell it to do something. > > It beats the hell out of regular cron, flexibility-wise ;)
Sounds nice! Have you seen POE::Component::Cron? -- Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/
