Alternative to Crontab

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/24/07, jenix <jennifer at digitalartwork.org> wrote:
>
> "I guess my question is:  "how does your ISP know you are runnng cron less
> than
> 5 minutes?  Must be watching the activity on your machine."
>
> Yes, they monitor it and state it on their site.
>
> "In which case, it is not cron that is the problem, it is the
> activity......"
>
> I want to fetch a dynamically generated csv file and import it into mysql.
> The data changes by the second. Realtime connection would be great. But have
> no idea how to do that.
>

How is this csv being generated?  Wouldn't it make more sense to have
the source automatically import the data into the database?


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