RE: [PHP] crontab help

Yup, it will... A good idea is to call exec() of a cgi script which sends email without time outs. CGI has it cute feature - never times out. I've seen it in some software. Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) maxim@phpbeginner.com www.phpbeginner.com -----Original Message----- From: Arnold Gamboa [mailto:arnold@php4us.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:37 PM To: Joe Stump Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] crontab help thanks for the comment let's just say i have 100k emails to send... don't you think that will drain the system resources if i send it all at once even if you have usleep(300) on each while? your comment please. > put a sleep(300); at the end of your while() loop - I did this on my mass > mailer and it worked like a charm. > > --Joe > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53:10PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote: > > hi there. > > > > is there a way to tell crontab to do: > > > > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour".. > > > > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to chunk into > > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Joe Stump, PHP Hacker, -o) > http://www.miester.org http://www.care2.com /\\ > "It's not enough to succeed. Everyone else must fail" -- Larry Ellison _\_V > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net