Alternative to Crontab

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 25 November 2007, jenix wrote:
> "I give up....    You're still not answering questions."
>
> Bruce, I appreciate the effort but you're going on about alot of stuff that
> seems irrelevant. What does the connection have to do with a running
> process on a linux box? The fact that the file is remote is irrelevant too.
> It could just as well be on the local machine. My question was simple; what
> alternatives are there to crontab? I'm no programmer and everyone here
> knows more than I do. Why make this so complicated? So I make the mistake
> of calling my web host an ISP. You asked, "whose machine would you LIKE to
> run a cron job". In the first and subsequent posts I said its on my ISP,
> aka "web host".

I'm still trying to figure out what kind of a "LASH-UP" you have and who is 
getting data from who and why.....!

So I think you have all the alternatives listed.....   And if the cron job 
would be on your web host,  NOW we learn that the file IS being pushed.  This 
is the first inkling I have had about that.   All of the questions I asked 
are pertinent  UNTIL one finds out just slightly more information.