Re: crontab programmed with mysql ??

Hi, Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 7:55:56 AM, you wrote: aac> I'm looking for the approximate solution of mailing out (or doing anything aac> else ) aac> timed by cron(tab) along with use of mysql as means of identification and aac> storing aac> of the dates in multiuser enviroment. aac> Initial date and interval of recurring event is to be set up by a user. aac> May you know some open source code as an example to do that or so? aac> Thank you, aac> Oleg Probably the easiest way is to set up cron to call a php script every 5 mins or whatever the smallest interval you will need and have that script run through your mysql tables looking for jobs to do. That way you only need one cron job. If you are on unix type server the simplest is to use lynx like this 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump http://domain.com/chkjob.php 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null -- regards, Tom