[CentOS] Triggering script from cron or web client

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Friday, July 08, 2011 11:05 PM +0100 Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Is this something you could do with AJAX?
> 
> You mean JavaScript on the web client? That won't do anything for me on the 
> server.
> 
> Note that the problem isn't strictly a web server problem. That just 
> happens to be the place where I want to initially trigger this from. But I 
> might also do it from a shell login. What I need is a way to  kick a 
> service so it doesn't wait for the next periodic interval to run a script. 
> It would also be useful to have the "kick" block until the script finishes 
> so I know when the results are available.

Read about Webmin. it's web interface for Linux administration that has 
as a part the cron job manipulation. You can change parameters 
disable/enable and run at once any cron job or service.

Ljubomir