Alternative to Crontab

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 25 November 2007, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Another alternative is to arrange to get the data file pushed to you
> instead of you pulling it. That avoids your Web hosting provider's
> monitoring entirely. All your Web host sees is an incoming file transfer,
> but there will be no matching cron job in the logs, so, theoretically,
> they shouldn't care.
>
> On a more general level, you're dealing with engineers and techie gear
> heads here. We solve a problems by obtaining as much information about
> the problem as possible and then proposing a solution. Actually, everyone
> will contribute their suggestions until a solution emerges. Right now,
> we're just trying to understand the problem.

And NOW we learn that she really was trying to push the file.   That the file 
resides on a web hosting facility and that is how the ISP(web host'r) can 
monitor whether cron is being run.

So pushing the file is what she is trying to do but I think most web hosts 
don't allow the use of ssh.

I also suspect that trying to do this in real-time or even close to it is 
going to be a very big up-hill battle and perhaps there is some other method 
to accomplish her task.   However, we'll never know that because all of these 
thought processes are irrelevant to the problem at hand.  (not)