in reply to Crontab Alternatives

Hi, the host I am currently with does not support crontabs, and I was wondering is there anyway around this?

Have you given any thought to moving to a host that does support cron jobs?

If you can run commands remotely on that host via ssh, you could set up a cron job on a home box to ssh into your ISP account an run a script.

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Re^2: Crontab Alternatives
by TheUndertaker (Novice) on Feb 13, 2005 at 04:29 UTC
    Well I'm not very proficient in these kinds of things... only recently started looking at them, and as such am now wondering whether or not there are any programs or utilities available I could upload to my site that could perform the same functions as cron jobs?
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      [I] am now wondering whether or not there are any programs or utilities available I could upload to my site that could perform the same functions as cron jobs?

      Cron relies on a long-running scheduling service (the crond daemon process). To achieve the same effect, you would need to do something equivalent. If your ISP doesn't allow cron jobs, chances are good they they won't look kindly on your leaving a long-running, possibly detached process to achieve the same end.

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