I have read the cron man page just now,It says that cron wakes up every minute to check task. I will try install/uninstall with cron.
Cheers, On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Von <von...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Nitin,I wonder how cron works,does it create a timer thread for each > task? > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I think to do so either you will need to schedule a cron or write a daemon >> process which will run continuously. >> Assuming that its running only once a day or say timely manner daemon will >> be a costly affair for system resources >> >> To schedule crons for python, this might be useful (using yaml) >> >> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html#About_cron_yaml >> >> Thanks, >> Nitin >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Von <von...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Nitin,I need a python solution for that. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> are you looking for something like cron? >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Von <von...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I have a python script running behind the scene,and I need it to call a >>>>> method on sunday 9 o'clock. >>>>> I get an idea,that I get the current time,and calculate the seconds to >>>>> sunday 9 o'clock, >>>>> then sleep these seconds and call my method,I think there could be an >>>>> elegant way to resolve this. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Nitin Pawar >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Nitin Pawar >> >> >
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