Re: Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

Robert Cummings wrote: >> That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a >> script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every >> 5mins. > > That's the same as running a cron every 5 minutes except now you also > need to detect if your daemon dies :) On the plus side though, you > eliminate the overhead of starting up the script every 5 minutes :) It is not the same as it will prevent multiple scripts running concurrently in case a batch of emails takes longer that 5 minutes. Checking if the daemon dies - I guess it's a matter of taste or paranoia, but I don't think it's necessary when the script is sufficiently simple: #!/bin/sh while true do <yourscript> sleep 300 done /Per Jessen, Zürich