On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Am 03.09.2010 16:29, schrieb Chris G: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 02:58:53PM +0100, Christopher Smith wrote: > > >> Why only run the cron once a day? Run it every couple of minutes. > >> > > With tens of thousands of picture files that might not be such a good > > idea! :-) > > There are tools that allow you to react on inode change > (inotify/incron). If these are available on your server, you would only > modify new files. This would make the load independent from the number > of files and allow near real-time reaction. I use these a lot. > Since it's my server, as in a computer here on site at home, it has inotify in its kernel. I'll investigate, it may well be that this is a tidier/better approach for me. Thanks! -- Chris Green -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://www.dokuwiki.org/mailinglist