cron

[jj at lcs.mit.edu (John Jannotti)]

Brian Medley <bpmedley at 4321.tv> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:56:25PM +0000, dan moylan wrote:
> > my web hosting service, pair.com, has recently taken away cron
> > privleges from their cheapest accounts (like mine).  i had been
> > using cron to update a posted calendar so as always to point to
> > the next pending event.  is there some other function which could
> > be used to accomplish cron-like functionality?  they are running
> > open bsd.
> 
> Can you ssh in?  If so, then you could setup a cronjob elsewhere that
> ssh'es into the box and runs the command...

That would be my first inclination as well.  Otherwise make the page a CGI
and move the logic to find the most recent calendar into it.  (Assumes you
can run CGIs, of course, but that seems important for a web hosting
service.)

  jj
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