Re: How to run a task continuously in the background

On 12/07/2019 08:08, lilu wrote:
>
>> 在 2019年7月12日，下午1:06，Dirk Mika <Dirk.Mika@mikatiming.de
>> <mailto:Dirk.Mika@mikatiming.de>> 写道：
>>
>> A cron job will only run once a minute, not wake up every second.
>> Right, that’s an issue.
>> But you could write a PHP program that does a one-second sleep before
>> checking if there's something to do, and a batch job that runs
>> periodically to see if the PHP program is running, and if not, launch
>> it.
>> I would like to avoid external programs if possible. In the current
>> Oracle environment, there are potentially multiple schemas on a
>> server in which processing can be active. And processing can be
>> started, monitored and stopped from a client application. And only
>> for the schema with which the application is connected.
>> BR
>> Dirk


But using a specific program that is good at its job is the unix way and
better for it imho. If you have a good scheduler why re-write another
one into every application?


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