RE: Email and perlscripts

2005-10-20 Thread Alfred Kraemer
Milwaukee, WI 53226 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 414-456-4273 -Original Message- From: Iglesias, Edward G. (Library) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:28 AM To: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: Email and perlscripts Greetings All, I recently inherited a server which

RE: Email and perlscripts

2005-10-20 Thread Iglesias, Edward G. \(Library\)
G. (Library) Cc: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: Re: Email and perlscripts On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Iglesias, Edward G. (Library) wrote: > Greetings All, > > I recently inherited a server which crashed. On that server were > several scripts used by a variety of people

Re: Email and perlscripts

2005-10-20 Thread Morbus Iff
fundlist. On arrival a script would run turning it into a webpage. I was able to move the script and get it to work fine. Unfortunately I can only do this manually by issuing a command like cat mbox | ./fundlist.pl I can't figure out how to automate this. Any ideas? Try procmail. It can p

Re: Email and perlscripts

2005-10-20 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Iglesias, Edward G. (Library) wrote: > Greetings All, > > I recently inherited a server which crashed. On that server were > several scripts used by a variety of people in my system. One of them > was a script for turning a fund report into a webpage. I

Re: Email and perlscripts

2005-10-20 Thread Morbus Iff
cat mbox | ./fundlist.pl Ultimately, you'll want to use full paths and then a crontab entry ("man 5 crontab" to read more). Something like: # Runs at noon time every Wednesday 0 12 * * Wedcat /var/spool/mbox | /path/to/fundlist.pl The other question is: how is fundlist.pl actually making

Email and perlscripts

2005-10-20 Thread Iglesias, Edward G. \(Library\)
Greetings All, I recently inherited a server which crashed. On that server were several scripts used by a variety of people in my system. One of them was a script for turning a fund report into a webpage. It would work by having the Collection Development email a report to a user called fundlis