Re: Sanity Check

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:14:18PM +0200, Bas Schulte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 30-apr-05, at 1:27, Rodney Rindels wrote:
> 
> >But. Since I Noticed Rocco mentions more than once the fact that some 
> >things are better left to cron.. I Thought I would get the more 
> >experience POE users opinion on this one.
> 
> You can combine cron and POE nicely, I just did it in a scheduler-like 
> application. It's a POE app with delayed events etc.. It gets it's 
> schedule from a database table, those entries are converted to cron 
> lines (e.g.  "*/5   1   0 0 0"), these lines are fed to 
> DateTime::Event::Cron that calculates the timestamp of the "next 
> interesting" datetime.
> 
> Every 5 or so seconds, I re-scan the database tables to see if there 
> were schedule changes, and if so, adjust that "next interesting" 
> datetime.
> 
> When the "next interesting" time has come, I start the specified task 
> (in my case, I open a tcp/ip network connection to a local control 
> server, also a POE app, and tell it to do something.
> 
> It beats the hell out of regular cron, flexibility-wise ;)

Sounds nice!  Have you seen POE::Component::Cron?

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