Re: Logging

[James Wilkinson <sa...@aprilcottage.co.uk>]

Skip wrote:
> I am on a linux, shared hosting site (Bluehost.com).  I don't 
> know how I can get it into the startup script for that box, and I only have 
> access to my own home directory.  That may be a showstopper right there.  
> I'll have no way of knowing when they reboot the box.

Earlier, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Running from cron is only for things you want to run 
> at regular intervals. It is not a valid way for starting daemons (ie: 
> something you want to run once and leave running)

Actually, something like this (from man 5 crontab on Fedora 8) might be
relevant:

       These special  time  specification  "nicknames"  are  supported, which
       replace the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by the ’@’
       character:
       @reboot    :    Run once, at startup.

Skip may have permissions to edit his own crontab (with the crontab
command) and set a daemon going at reboot time.

There may be CPU time quota constraints, of course.

Hope this helps,

James.

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