Re: Trigger Problems

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 38643
interpreted = N
texte = What we're trying to accomplish with the triggers, is to have a database file be re-written every 10 minutes. I thought that the trigger would do it but I can't even get them to do anything at all.If anyone has triggers working for you let me know how...Thanks.-----Original Message----- From: Dale LaFountain [mailto:dalel@darkhorse.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:19 PM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: Trigger Problems >Hi to all. >We have 6 triggers that don't work at all. I set them all up according to >the manual but they just don't execute. We're running WebDNA Ver. 4.0.1 b7 >on NT server. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks. > >Pedro Rivera - WebmasterMy first suggestion would be to upgrade to the current beta (4.0.2rc2) as it fixes buckets of problems.Second, I would avoid using triggers if you have more than a small handful of once-per-day triggers. We just gave up on triggers after struggling with them for over a year, and are now much happier (and faster and more stable and more consistently executed) running our triggers from a unix box with crontab and wget. There are similar tools available for NT if you don't have a unix box handy.Third, as for debugging triggers, make sure you only list a single number or * in each time component, and that the value is absolute and valid (i.e. specify 5 in the minute field means 5 minutes after every hour, not every 5 minutes). Otherwise please post your raw database of triggers.db to the list and we'll try to help you out further.Good luck,-Dale -- Dale LaFountain Vice President of Information Technology, WebMaster Dark Horse Comics, Inc. mailto:dalel@darkhorse.com Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 http://www.darkhorse.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Trigger Problems (Pedro Rivera 2001)
  2. Re: Trigger Problems (Dale LaFountain 2001)
  3. Re: Trigger Problems (Pedro Rivera 2001)
  4. Re: Trigger Problems (Dale LaFountain 2001)
  5. Re: Trigger Problems (Pedro Rivera 2001)
  6. Re: Trigger Problems (Dale LaFountain 2001)
  7. Trigger Problems (Pedro Rivera 2001)
  8. Re: Trigger Problems (Sara Newton 2000)
  9. Re: Trigger Problems (Kenneth Grome 2000)
  10. Trigger Problems (Sara Newton 2000)
What we're trying to accomplish with the triggers, is to have a database file be re-written every 10 minutes. I thought that the trigger would do it but I can't even get them to do anything at all.If anyone has triggers working for you let me know how...Thanks.-----Original Message----- From: Dale LaFountain [mailto:dalel@darkhorse.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:19 PM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: Trigger Problems >Hi to all. >We have 6 triggers that don't work at all. I set them all up according to >the manual but they just don't execute. We're running WebDNA Ver. 4.0.1 b7 >on NT server. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks. > >Pedro Rivera - WebmasterMy first suggestion would be to upgrade to the current beta (4.0.2rc2) as it fixes buckets of problems.Second, I would avoid using triggers if you have more than a small handful of once-per-day triggers. We just gave up on triggers after struggling with them for over a year, and are now much happier (and faster and more stable and more consistently executed) running our triggers from a unix box with crontab and wget. There are similar tools available for NT if you don't have a unix box handy.Third, as for debugging triggers, make sure you only list a single number or * in each time component, and that the value is absolute and valid (i.e. specify 5 in the minute field means 5 minutes after every hour, not every 5 minutes). Otherwise please post your raw database of triggers.db to the list and we'll try to help you out further.Good luck,-Dale -- Dale LaFountain Vice President of Information Technology, WebMaster Dark Horse Comics, Inc. mailto:dalel@darkhorse.com Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 http://www.darkhorse.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Pedro Rivera

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