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dgolman
dgolman

Reputation: 196

Is Cron the right option for this?

I am trying to create a script that watches my college time table and registers them for a class when it is open. Kind of like an Ebay auction sniper. I was wondering if cron is the right tool for this. I need to be able to run the script for every user. The user will enter their username and password and the script will query the timetable.

Looking for some advice on if cron is the tool or if there are other tools out there.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 57

Answers (1)

thb
thb

Reputation: 14454

cron runs a particular program or script at a specified time. For example, if you wanted a report compiled and e-mailed every day at 2 a.m., that would be a cron job.

In this sense, cron has a timetable, but I am not sure that it is the sort of timetable of which you are thinking.

From a system-design perspective, the clean way to achieve the effect you want naturally would be to let the students' class requests join a queue, then to have the college's registrar's own computer take requests from the queue as seats became available. However, I assume from your Ebay reference that this is not possible in your case.

Upvotes: 1

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