"Allison Ogle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if it was possible with Perl to automate my script to be
run
> everyday at midnight. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
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On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 11:55 , Chas Owens wrote:
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> Oopsy, forgot the sleep call. That is what I get for just posting code
> without testing it first. Well, I did say something like this />. Maybe it should look more like this (actually it shouldn't, you
> _should use cron or th
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 14:45, drieux wrote:
>
> shame on you chas.
>
> that's a run away script - since you have no throttler
> in it at all and it will only 'slow down' while actually
> executing your system call.
Oopsy, forgot the sleep call. That is what I get for just posting code
wit
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 09:13 , Chas Owens wrote:
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> The general way to do this in Unix style OSes is to use cron. Type "man
> crontab" for more info, but it should be possible -- but very
> undesirable -- to write something like this:
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> my $last_run = (localtime)[3];
> until (
