Thanks for the really useful responses Richard, Alex & Tom - great to know the art of the possible. I think most of my current use cases will be supported by send with time, as they’re more lightweight ’tick-over’ activities than big batch jobs. Best, Keith
> On 28 Nov 2018, at 21:51, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Alex Tweedly wrote: > > > On 28/11/2018 20:45, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > >> > >> FWIW, cron is for periodic tasks. If you need a one-off at a > >> specific time see at. > >> > >> But can be managed from the command line, which means you can drive > >> them from LC if needed through the shell function. > >> > > And. conversely, you can drive LC from cron - i.e. to schedule > > something regular, just use cron, and make the cron task be something > > like > > > > wget https://mydomain.com/index.lc/domynightlytask > > > > so you get to script the task in your usual way (e.g. within > > revigniter), and do the scheduling with cron (generally accessible > > from cPanel as well as shell). > > And for local tasks: > > ~/somescript.lc > > ...where line 1 of somescript.lc is: > > #!/path/to/your/copy/of/livecodeserver > > > Or launch the engine and specify the script in the command line: > > ~/livecode-server somescript.lc > > > Lots of flexibility mixing and matching LC with other tools to make the best > use of what each brings to the table. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
