From: Alberto Santana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Suppose I have a Perl script (called from a crontab file) that will, > basically, do something like this: > > $out=`lynx -dump http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners`; > open(OUT,">out"); print OUT $out; close(OUT); $send_it=`mail > me\@here.com<out`; > > OK, here comes the problem. What if the web page is down? lynx will > keep trying for a while until it gives up or something. Is it possible > to impose a time limit, like: execute $out, wait for 45 seconds, if > there was no response (lynx did not dump), exit(0);
Not sure if it'll help you with the real problem you have, but in this case I would recoment using LWP::UserAgent (or LWP::Simple) instead of runing an external program. Jenda =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ========== There is a reason for living. There must be. I've seen it somewhere. It's just that in the mess on my table ... and in my brain I can't find it. --- me -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
