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Re: Queuing at job from within php program? [message #175687 is a reply to message #175678]

Thu, 20 October 2011 01:40

bobmct
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:12:13 +0200, Erwin Moller
<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much(at)spamyourself(dot)com> wrote:

> On 10/17/2011 3:24 PM, bobm3(at)worthless(dot)info wrote:
>> Fellow php'ers;
>>
>> I'm having some difficulty getting this to work: Based on a date/time
>> selected by a user on a web form I would like to use the "at" command to
>> schedule that task.
>>
>> I've tried various php functions (system, exec, passthru) with the same
>> results (return code 1 - which I cannot seem to get the error message
>> from).
>>
>
> <snip>
>
> Others commented on the issues that can arrise with rights.
> (More specific: the PHP-user (www-data or apache) adding tasks.)
>
> I want to add another approach that I prefer.
> (Written for Unix-lie systems. Replace cronjob with task-scheduler for
> Windows.)
>
> Personally I don't like my software to schedule new tasks automatically.
> So if I need scheduling, I prefer to create 1 cronjob by hand, for
> www-data, that runs a script (can be PHP).
> That script than pulls from a database certain tasks WHEN they are needed.
> Depending on the time-resolution you need you can run this cron-job once
> a day, once an hour, every minute, etc.
>
> I like it that way because I can catch the result, log the last time it
> ran, etc. And e-mail myself or some admin in case of failure.
>
> Just a thought. Maybe it helps in your situation.
> If not, consider this noise. ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller

Thanks all for the great comments. I haven't looked at the at.deny
file yet but I will. Regarding the suggestion about storing the
request and triggering at defined intervals: that's my direction. But
seeing how I'm replacing a manual system now I need something to queue
these requests short-term while I find time to complete the back end.

Thanks again - Bob

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		Queuing at job from within php program? By: bobmct on Mon, 17 October 2011 13:24
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 17 October 2011 15:20
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: bobmct on Mon, 17 October 2011 15:51
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 17 October 2011 16:47
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Robert Heller on Mon, 17 October 2011 18:27
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 17 October 2011 20:53
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 18 October 2011 07:51
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 18 October 2011 03:43
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 18 October 2011 08:12
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: bobmct on Thu, 20 October 2011 01:40
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? SOLVED! By: bobmct on Fri, 21 October 2011 01:21

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