[TriLUG] Uploading Race Info Automatically: question

[Lance A. Brown]

Carl Crider said the following on 10/2/2007 9:22 PM:
>  Yup. What is the easiest way to setup a "job" to do this every 30 minutes?
> 
> -Perl script?
> -Cron Job to run script?

I'd use a cron job.  Have it check the uploaded copy of the file against
 a "previous version" of the file that you saved the last time it
changed.  If its different, copy it into your previous version, parse
it, and update your web pages.

--[lance]


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