okay, i need to run a perl script each day at 1 am, automatically...

[spewn]

i have a perl script that updates my site so the content is fresh, daily...

just short of me physically running the script every morning, how or what can i do to initiate the script every morning at a certain time - automatically?

what options do i have?

- g

 

[KevinADC]

google search for cron job

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[KevinADC]

are you slurping some other websites content to use on your website?

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[spewn]

slurping...lol, no...

i have a website that i designed in perl and it outputs html...once i save the pages as html, the information becomes static, although the info will change everyday...so, short of resaving each page every day, i wrote an update script to update every html page...

don't worry, it's my own site. i don't steal, jack or "slurp"...!!!

- g

 

[terryISO]

You don't say what platform you ar eusing (Unix, Windows etc), but I run Apache & Perl on Windows 2000. I have two Perl scripts which I run every three minutes, one evry seven minutes and five every Sunday.

To do this I have set up scheuled taks using the Windows scgeduler. This works wonderfully for me.

Don't know about non-Windows32 platforms, though.

 

[KevinADC]

yes, task for windows, cron for linux/unix

don't worry, it's my own site. i don't steal, jack or "slurp"...!!!

OK, I just wanted to be sure.

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