Re: [ic] Set variable to query result at start-up?

[Jon Jensen <suppressed>]

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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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
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