I am having a bit of trouble figuring out how to do a fairly generic thing: 'the scheduled task', to send out a daily digest for a perl forums site.
I am developing on Apache/1.3.27 on Win XP, running ActivePerl 5.8.0.806
The live webserver that it gets uploaded to is running unix, Apache/1.3.26 (not sure which perl version, but I am sure it is not lower)
I am thinking I need to exec or fork or something, get some ID to the schedule-handling process that can be saved and used to look it up later (to ensure it's running, or stop it etc). If a problem occurs in storing the ID, I think I can have the schedule thread check a file periodically for a 'I should die' value, to make sure zombies don't build up.
I really don't know how to even attempt this, what the best ways are, what the pitfalls may be. I am sure scheduled tasks are no biggy, they are fairly common.
I don't think this server will allow us to install new CPAN modules, we only have FTP, HTTP, a public and a little cgi-bin dir for the site.
Any help on where to start would be very appreciated thanks!
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