Alternative to Crontab

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 24 November 2007, jenix wrote:
> "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.

Well, the activity is still going to be your problem.

What do you use as a command in your crontab  to go get the file?

Your lowest activity I would think would be to find some way to see if the 
file has changed, and only retrieve it when it has.   Do you have any control 
over the machine with the file?  I.e., can you have a script running on the 
sending machine that would only send when the file has changed?