Running a process every N days

[Mark Westwood]

Hi Dan

FWIW I'd use logrotate for this.

Regards
Mark Westwood

On Jun 7, 11:27 pm, "danmcle... at yahoo.com" <danmcle... at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> What's the best way to run either an entire python process or a python
> thread every N days. I'm running Python 2.4.3 on Fedora Core 5 Linux.
> My code consists of a test and measurement system that runs 24/7 in a
> factory setting. It collects alot of data and I'd like to remove all
> data older than 30 days. My ideal solution would be something that
> runs in the background but only wakes up to run every few days to
> check for old data.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan McLeran