Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > Yeah, I got that latter, when I read it the second time and some of the replies. I misunderstood him at first read. Ljubomir