Timed Scripts in Virtual Domains

[millimeter]

Greetings,

I am an ammeter Perl programmer looking for a method to run a script or some operation (shell.. etc) based on time. I looked into cron but this as I understand is one per server, not virtual domain.

For example I need to execute a script that reads a text file once every hour based on an action taking place to start it until another action takes place.
Start - A particular script is accessed, this signals the start. The nest time the script is accessed it single a stop.

Is this possible with Perl, Shell...?

Thanks for your help.

 

[dickiebird]

When you run the start (ie first time run) from the cron (or however), you could create a file (eg. touch /tmp/testfile) and check for its existence on the second run (then delete it and run your stop process)
HTH Dickie Bird (-)))