ceo

Last I checked, Windows has this "at" command, the underpinnings of
which are remarkably similar (read: stolen from) the Un*x "at" command
upon which "cron" (and Windows "Scheduled Tasks") are built.

So you could probably use "at" on all systems reliably, with minor (or
no) tweaks to anything.

If not, I'm betting that you could bundle an opensource "cron" into
your distribution process a heck of a lot faster and more reliably
than hacking up a bogus cron-like substance within PHP...

YMMV

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roland.schwingel

Hi Richard,

Richard Lynch schrieb:

I tried the "AT" thingy also, but I am not very confident about
errorlogging and it opens up an IMHO too big difference in Windows
and Unix handling of my app's installation and maintenance process,
so I think I will give my cron solution a try...

Roland

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roland.schwingel

Hi Richard,

Richard Lynch schrieb:

I tried the "AT" thingy also, but I am not very confident about
errorlogging and it opens up an IMHO too big difference in Windows
and Unix handling of my app's installation and maintenance process,
so I think I will give my cron solution a try...

Roland

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ceo

OS X, no, you would not need a different mechanism, because OS X is
pretty much FreeBSD+OpenBSD+AppleGUICode.

So it has a perfectly fine cron/at command.

MacOS 9.x and below, if PHP even runs on it, I suppose you have a
point, except I don't think anybody has seriously gotten PHP to run
stable on MacOS below X -- could be wrong, of course.

There are probably *other* OSes out there that PHP runs on, like TiVo,
where you have no "at" command...

Good Luck!

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