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Re: Stay-Open Script Apps vs Cron
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Re: Stay-Open Script Apps vs Cron


  • Subject: Re: Stay-Open Script Apps vs Cron
  • From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:23:44 -0400

On Jun 5, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Ted Wrigley wrote:

>
> On Jun 5, 2014, at 4:40 AM, email@hidden wrote:
>
>> I would prefer the daemon to run asynchronously, ie two hours from the last activity rather than simply every two hours.  I thought I could do this by changing the idle time in an idle handler every time an email arrives but it looks like that is not possible.
>
> Actually, that is possible - I’ve done it frequently.  all you need to do, for instance, is return a number from the idle handler.  for instance:
>
> on idle
> 	return 7200
> end idle
>
> will call the script app in two hours (give or take ten seconds)

Yes, I know that.  What I was looking for as a way to change the time before the two hours is up.  There doesn't appear to be a way to do that.

Steve


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