# Plugin Help: Basic plugin to run a command in the background? **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** plugin-dev\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047 "2018-05-29T20:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fmstrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@fmstrat](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fmstrat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047/1 "2018-05-29T20:36:35Z")
Hi all. I want to run a command in the background for debug every 5 minutes. Is there a quick easy plugin template that would help me do this? I just want to pull some info from the DB using sqlite and push it to a file so I can track changes to the DB (I’m debugging a caching issue in another app). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![dane22](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dane22/32/4389_2.png) [@dane22](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dane22)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047/2 "2018-05-29T20:50:58Z")
Nope… Use native OS tools for that, like `cron` if on Linux or Mac, and `Task Scheduler` if on Windows ---
**Author:** ![fmstrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@fmstrat](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fmstrat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047/3 "2018-05-29T21:06:49Z")
Hrm, i need it in the plug-in unfortunately. Trying to see if a plug-in can monitor the DB changed that aren’t seen on the filesystem due to what I think is WAL caching. ---
**Author:** ![dane22](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dane22/32/4389_2.png) [@dane22](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dane22)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047/4 "2018-05-29T21:56:51Z")
Then checkout my EPG-DK plugin, that contains a scheduler [github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle](https://github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle/blob/master/Contents/Code/ __init__.py#L328 "https://github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle") Note that you need to run the bundle as a [daemon](https://github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle/blob/master/Contents/Info.plist#L15 "daemon") ---
**Author:** ![fmstrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@fmstrat](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fmstrat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047/5 "2018-05-30T00:17:07Z")
> @dane22 said: > Then checkout my EPG-DK plugin, that contains a scheduler > > [github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle](https://github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle/blob/master/Contents/Code/ __init__.py#L328 "https://github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle") > > Note that you need to run the bundle as a [daemon](https://github.com/ukdtom/epg-dk.bundle/blob/master/Contents/Info.plist#L15 "daemon") Awesome. Thank you! For reference, is there a simple Hello World Plug-in out there that maybe writes to a log file or something like that when hitting a URL on the Plex server? Just trying g to get my bearings. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![dane22](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dane22/32/4389_2.png) [@dane22](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dane22)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047/6 "2018-05-30T08:09:59Z")
> @fmstrat said: > Awesome. Thank you! For reference, is there a simple Hello World Plug-in out there that maybe writes to a log file or something like that when hitting a URL on the Plex server? Just trying g to get my bearings. Thanks again. Not that I know off, sorry ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plugin-help-basic-plugin-to-run-a-command-in-the-background/237047/7 "2020-01-08T20:08:21Z")