[ic] Set variable to query result at start-up?
Jon Jensen
jon at endpoint.com
Thu Feb 14 17:03:18 EST 2008
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Davor Ocelic wrote:
>> I've determined this won't work, because the database connection isn't
>> established at the time I need it to be in order to run the query. I
>> really have to do this inside the catalog.cfg somehow, and after the
>> point where the Database directives have been processed.
>
> If IC Jobs are mimicking Unix cron in a way, how about adding support
> for special time specification in style of Unix cron, but instead of
> @reboot like in Cron, we'd call it @startup and/or @reconfig. It would
> run in catalog context, after catalog is configured, and once for
> @startup, or each time for @reconfig.
That sounds like it could work, as long as it happened before forking any
child processes so that the changes were guaranteed to happen before any
processing happens.
Jon
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