Re: Cron and Perl Script

2002-07-26 Thread David T-G
drieux, et al -- ...and then drieux said... % % On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 05:51 , Kessler, Ben wrote: % ... % >man 5 crontab ... % % my compliments! % % this appears to be available only on linux machines, % and is not yet an option on all *nix implementations! FWIW, it's also part of Fre

RE: Cron and Perl Script

2002-07-26 Thread Kessler, Ben
---Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 7:31 AM To: begin begin Subject: Re: Cron and Perl Script On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 09:44 , Max Hugen wrote: [..] > I am trying to run this from Cron every 5 minutes, but being as unfamilair > w

Re: Cron and Perl Script

2002-07-26 Thread Jeff
I've never seen this syntax before: */5(from line: */5 * * * * root perl /home/sites/sa/cgi-bin/test.pl) Is that legal?! -J --- "Mike(mickako)Blezien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remove the "root per" form the command line > > Max Hugen wrote: > > > > I have a simple perl script whic

Re: Cron and Perl Script

2002-07-26 Thread David T-G
Ben, et al -- ...and then Kessler, Ben said... % % Execute the following: ... on a Linux system, or perhaps a FreeBSD system, but almost certainly don't bother on a Solaris system. % % man 5 crontab % % This man page explains all of the shortcuts possible in a cron schedule. ... when you'r

Re: Cron and Perl Script

2002-07-26 Thread drieux
On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 09:44 , Max Hugen wrote: [..] > I am trying to run this from Cron every 5 minutes, but being as unfamilair > with Cron as with Perl, I having problems - the cron job does not seem to > run. My entry in /etc/crontab is: > */5 * * * * root perl /home/sites/sa/cgi-