Re: How to set orion to perform a timely task.. (CRON???)
Someone suggesting hitting a JSP with a cron... how can you hit a URL with a CRON or AT command, I didn't think you could do that! Perhaps I misunderstood the explanation? R Robert S. Sfeir Director of Software Development PERCEPTICON corporation San Francisco, CA 94123 w - http://www.percepticon.com/ e- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t - (415) 749-2900 x205
Re: How to set orion to perform a timely task.. (CRON???)
on unix, you could d/l and use the wget command mike - Original Message - From: "Robert S. Sfeir" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:18 PM Subject: Re: How to set orion to perform a timely task.. (CRON???) Someone suggesting hitting a JSP with a cron... how can you hit a URL with a CRON or AT command, I didn't think you could do that! Perhaps I misunderstood the explanation? R Robert S. Sfeir Director of Software Development PERCEPTICON corporation San Francisco, CA 94123 w - http://www.percepticon.com/ e- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t - (415) 749-2900 x205
Re: How to set orion to perform a timely task.. (CRON???)
Sure you can. * * * * * lynx --dump http://myhost/hiteveryminute.jsp /dev/null This submits something to hiteveryminute.jsp every, um, minute. On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert S. Sfeir wrote: Someone suggesting hitting a JSP with a cron... how can you hit a URL with a CRON or AT command, I didn't think you could do that! Perhaps I misunderstood the explanation? R Robert S. Sfeir Director of Software Development PERCEPTICON corporation San Francisco, CA 94123 w - http://www.percepticon.com/ e- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t - (415) 749-2900 x205 --- Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://epesh.com/ IT Consultant
Re: How to set orion to perform a timely task.. (CRON???)
One way is to write a simple Java program that uses URLConnection to hit your JSP page and have CRON drive your simple program. tim. Someone suggesting hitting a JSP with a cron... how can you hit a URL with a CRON or AT command, I didn't think you could do that! Perhaps I misunderstood the explanation? R Robert S. Sfeir Director of Software Development PERCEPTICON corporation San Francisco, CA 94123 w - http://www.percepticon.com/ e- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t - (415) 749-2900 x205
RE: How to set orion to perform a timely task.. (CRON???)
you can use wget in some *nix'es I have a java based tool that does basically the same work that wget does; I'll post it tomorrow -Original Message- From: Joseph B. Ottinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 3:40 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: How to set orion to perform a timely task.. (CRON???) Sure you can. * * * * * lynx --dump http://myhost/hiteveryminute.jsp /dev/null This submits something to hiteveryminute.jsp every, um, minute. On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert S. Sfeir wrote: Someone suggesting hitting a JSP with a cron... how can you hit a URL with a CRON or AT command, I didn't think you could do that! Perhaps I misunderstood the explanation? R Robert S. Sfeir Director of Software Development PERCEPTICON corporation San Francisco, CA 94123 w - http://www.percepticon.com/ e- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t - (415) 749-2900 x205 --- Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://epesh.com/ IT Consultant
