Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Run a script 5 min later

[Hank M. <hma...@gm...>]

Ohhh, one gotcha.   Never set your interval shorter than the time the job
takes to run ... bad things happen :)

On 11/13/06, Hank Marquardt <hma...@gm...> wrote:
>
> cron job.   put a time stamp in the database, cron job checks the
> timestamp and executes all records > 5 minutes ... if you execute the
> cronjob every 5 minutes then the longest one would sit is 9:59 ... shorten
> the interval, shorten the length ...
>
> Could do the same thing with timestamps on files if you don't want to do
> the database thing.
>
>
> On 11/13/06, Terry < ma...@ao...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > How can I run a script 5 min after a user does something?
> >
> > I want to give a user 5 minutes to cancel an action, and if they don't
> > then it actually happens. So, I'd like to run a script 5 minutes later,
> > and have it perform any actions in the queue that are 5+ minutes old. 5
> > min is not critical, but I don't think I should wait longer than 10
> > min.
> >
> > What if it's only needed very infrequently?
> >
> > I'm thinking the options are to use a cron job that runs every few
> > minutes, or, call the script with curl and have it sleep for 5 minutes
> > first.
> >
> > Terry
> >
> >
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