Basically it is a cheap cron-type service that runs remotely. You tell it what scripts to run and when and it hits them. Used to use this a lot in the days before having my own servers and found it very useful.
Thanks Aquanuke. I figured there must have been an easy way to do it. Been a lot of years since I messed around with linux and my memory was failing me.
Roger - I run php scripts form the command line with something like:
/usr/bin/php -q /path/to/script.php
... so that would be cron-able.
Not sure what the -q switch does, but it was in instructions that came with something so I use it (might be for "quiet" mode - suppress output, that's a guess).
regardless of the level of copyright infrigement roger may or may not be guilty of (i have no idea and i'm certainly not going to bother checking) your decision to post your complaint on the board and not via email is quite pathetic imho.
by all means send him a private message, but to go public first is not the way to handle it - unless he is a persistent offender, which he doesn't appear to be by your message.
still, it makes the decision not to bother with your programme so much easier.
Firstly, Roger, thank you for your personal email. I appreciate your prompt and courteous resolution of these issues.
JRisby, I'm sorry you felt the post was inapproriate but I don't make any apologies for doing so - it's no more inappropriate than people lacking respect of copyright. I chose to make it clear that such will not be tolerated to ultimately protect the interests of both my company and my affiliate partners.
you handle your copyright issues as you see fit, obviously.
as a member of the nuj, and a programmer, i value the copyright in my work and i understand where you are coming from. i just totally disagree with starting a dialogue about infringement in a public forum. but, when you do so, don't be surprised that people other than those directly involved respond and consider your business decisions ill-judged.
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