Re: [cobalt-users] timeout on cgi scripts....

["H.P. Stroebel" <hpstr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrie Bartkowiak schrieb:
> 
> > > > > what`s the sense of calling a CGI script by
> > > > > cron ?
> 
> To automatically do busy work (CGI, PHP, whatever scripts).
> Like:
> Every week cleaning out messages in your message board that are older than
> 30 days.
> Every night, automatically adding links that have been submitted to your
> Gossamer Links engine.
> Every 15 minutes, checking Moritz's signup script tmp directory to see if
> anyone's signed up and then making their domain and sending out their
> welcome letter automatically.
> Every night, letting Webalizer do its thing...

these functions do not seem to use CGI, though. but i remember a case
where a cgi script was called by another, cron-triggered script to
simulate an interactive session for cleanup.

but anyway, what script do you have, which language and what do you want
to have a timeout for ? 

the above tasks do not seem to require a timeout... i don`t think that
they will work well if you simply add a timeout ? 

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