Alternative to Crontab

[James McDonald]

jenix 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.
>
> Thank you.
> Jennifer
>   
I notice a lot of blogging software uses some sort of XML RPC calls.

It may be possible to insert data into your MYSQL db remotely by doing a 
SOAP call or similar. Look up webservices or similar on the internet.

Perhaps you can create a php page which will parse and insert data into 
your mysql db. Then you send a request to the page with your data 
encapsulated in xml or whatever you want.