Forget my solution. This one's way easier and probably more accurate, if
your program has to wait exactly 5 minutes.
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From: "Barry Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Yacketta, Ronald'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Beginners
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:43 AM
Subject: RE: a little help here please
> Hi,
>
> Perl has a sleep function: sleep(EXPR)
> where EXPR is the time in minutes to
> make the script sleep for.
>
> eg: sleep(5);
>
> Otherwise can you not use a task sheduler
> to run the script every 5 minutes?
>
> Barry.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yacketta, Ronald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:44 PM
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> Subject: a little help here please
>
>
> I have a script that does a bunch of things, one of which parses a large
> amount of log files
> every cycle through the script, what would I need todo to the script to
only
> parse the logfiles every 5 minutes ; yet not impacting the rest of the
> script?
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
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