On Thursday 07. November 2002 14:20, Peter Palmreuther wrote: > Hi Raven, > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:30:29 +0100 > > Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I need a tool which can automatically send a mail once every time > >>> interval. > >> > >> Is 'cron' or 'at' what you are looking for? > > > > I have an webfrontend where every user/admin should be able to set the > > time interval, and such. So I guess cron is not dynamic enough..?! > > How 'dynamic' do you need it? Ain't between 'one defined day in year, at > a defined time' and 'every minute' not dynamic enough? > > Sure, I just didn't know how easy you could edit the crontab..
> Have a look at webmin (http://www.webmin.com/), there's a 'cron editor > web frontend' included. Create a special webmin account, having only > access to cron part of webmin and he should be done. > > Or write oen your self. Using PHP or Perl this should be done really > fast. > > For questions about how to write it in PHP or Perl, how to insert the > cron job from web front end, I'd suggest you look for an appropriate > newsgroup or web board, it's not really vpopmail-related :-) > I know, and sorry for that! But it could be somebody on this list had an idea anyway... :) (And since I'm using vpopmail while I need this I may call it kind of related...;)
