Re: file timestamp monitoring

2002-07-29 Thread Steve Grazzini
Jason Viloria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone help me plaease use perl to monitor the timestamp > of a text file to alert me if it is more than 1 minute old and run > an external program if so? > > I suppose a simple script which runs in cron would do the job but > maybe someone els

file timestamp monitoring

2002-07-28 Thread Jason Viloria
Hi Can someone help me plaease use perl to monitor the timestamp of a text file to alert me if it is more than 1 minute old and run an external program if so? I suppose a simple script which runs in cron would do the job but maybe someone else has a better solution? Thanks Jason