[Owncloud] CronJob System within ownCloud

[Arthur Schiwon]

Did you consider the option of a daemon? That could provide even a bit 
more flexibility and people wouldn't need to change anything on the server.

http://pear.php.net/package/System_Daemon/

Cheers
Arthur

On 07/22/2012 05:38 PM, Jakob Sack wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after the sprint in Stuttgart I talked with Jörn Friedrich Dreyer about
> the background job problem. If I remember correctly the two most
> important suggestions were (a) using cron and (b) using long time
> polling/ajax.
>
> I'd suggest extending (or rewriting) "my" background jobs app so that it
> can make use of both cron jobs and ajax polling. Then the app can choose
> the best option out of:
> 1) using cron (++)
> 2) using some internet cron service (open the page x every y minutes) (+)
> 3) long time polling when the users are on the page (-)
>
> The reasons for my rating: A normal cron job does not rely on the
> limitations that apache might have (memory limit, time limit). An
> internet cron service has these limitations, but it works 24/7. Option 3
> runs only when users are online which is bad if you rely on having
> certain tasks done at a given time.
>
> What do you think?
> Regards,
>
> Jakob
>
> Am 22.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Alessandro Cosentino:
>> I need a cron job system for news app too. The use case is the
>> following: if the user doesn't check the reader for a long time, he
>> might miss some items that might have been in the feed and then been
>> removed. This happens with feeds that have frequent updates.
>>
>> I know that Jakob is working on this.
>>
>> Alessandro
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Georg Ehrke
>> <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I was just wondering if someone is working on a kind of cronjob
>>> system for ownCloud.
>>> I know that there is the background job app by Jakob, but this app
>>> requires an entry in the crontab file.
>>> I am currently working on remote calendars and it would be quite
>>> useful to have a cron job system, to automatically update the remote
>>> calendars.
>>> It would actually work without a cronjob system, if you update them
>>> if the user is using the calendar, but a cronjob system would make it
>>> more comfortable.
>>>
>>> But there are some planned features, that wouldn't work without a
>>> cronjob system.
>>> An Example would be an automatic e-mail reminder before an event starts.
>>>
>>> Does anybody has a clue on how I could solve this problem without
>>> making an entry in the crontab file a hard dependency?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Georg Ehrke
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