executing scripts on a clock 1

[theEclipse]

I am writing a perl web program that will need to execute a script with certain parameters x time later....

is this something I should do directly with linux or inside apache?

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[stefanwagner]

man at

is what you're looking for:

at now + 3 minutes 
perl thePerlScript.pl

I don't know how to start 'at' from perl, but there should be a way.
Perhaps perl has a build-in functionality to do this more elegant.


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[LawnBoy]

Sure, Perl can run system calls.

system ('whatever command line syntax on whatever OS perl happens to be running on')

 

[theEclipse]

stefan-

thanks. I think that is what I am looking for. I cant test it at the moment though....

Also, I think that in perl you can use backticks (`) to run a command. But I am not quite sure about that....I will have to look it up.

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