On 7/8/2011 5:43 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > 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. That's not going to give him atomic operations if the web/cron jobs hit at the same time or a bunch of web users all click the update button at once. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com