Shawn Pursley wrote:
>
> I'm trying to create a program that would look, at a specified interval of
> every 15 seconds, at a database; if there is a new entry(which would be
> specified as a field called IMSTAT), it would need to start a process of
> copying a .tif file from a local drive and then create a dynamic HTML page
> from this .tif. My end users would be passed an URL of this newly created
> page.
>
> After completing the dynamic page, then I would modify the db records to a
> completed status and then the system would again check to see if any new
> entries existed.
>
> Is pgsql the way that you folks would do this or is there a better way/some
> existing daemon that can monitor pgsql?
>
> We currently run Apache 1.3.6
> Postgres 6.4.2 (I know this needs to be upgraded)
> on a Mandrake 5.2 box (essentially RH 6.0)
>
> Thanks for any and all help,
> Shawn
>
> ************
in crontab have:
*/15 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/runme 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
runme can just be a perl script that connects, checks a value, performs
a copy if needed. I do this all the time for automating stuff. I have
stuff that runs every minute instead of 15, but the principal is the
same. If you need the perl code as an example, please let me know.
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