Re: exit function

Hello Joe, This may be way to simplistic for you but .. we always stamp the 'primary' record with a time/date stamp showing last emailed date. So email-stamp, email-stamp. This is a pretty quick process and since we know what records should be stamped (from our primary selection) we simply find those that weren't DSig Thursday, October 19, 2000, 3:13:27 PM, you wrote: JS> I'm usually on the answering end - but now I'm the one asking ;O) JS> I know in C/C++ you can designate a function to run if a program gets killed JS> on some way or another (for cleanup reasons). Is there a way to do this with JS> a shell PHP script? JS> Here's the scenario - I have a script that sends out some 900K emails (large JS> targeted mailing list for work) and if the server, or any point between that JS> and my workstation goes down, I need to have it update something somewhere so JS> I know what record to start on to resume sending the emails. JS> Any ideas? JS> --Joe JS> /*****************************\ JS> * Joe Stump * JS> * www.Care2.com * JS> * Office: 650.328.0198 * JS> * Extension: 122 * JS> \*****************************/ JS> http://www.miester.org/Joe/Stump/Joe_Stump_resume.html JS> JS> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- JS> Version: 3.12 JS> GB/E/IT d- s++:++ a? C++++ UL++$ P+ L+++$ E----! W+++$ JS> N+@ o? K? w---! O-@ M+@ V-! P(++) PE(+) Y+@ PGP+++@ t+@ JS> 5? R-! tv@ b+ DI++@ D(++++) G++@ e+@ h@ r+! z(+++++**)! JS> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- Best regards, dsig mailto:dsig@teleport.com