> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 22 May 2002 06:01
> To: Perl Beginners
> Subject: Cron alternatives?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> A friend of mine has a task he wants to do daily, so I told
> him to check
> into cron but he said he doesn't have it. His server is
> running RedHat 6.1
As DC has said in a previous post he most definitely has got Cron. If he
changes to the /etc directory and has a look for all things beginning with C
then he will see a few configuration files in their. The only reason I can
think of that would mean he has not got it is he has not got permission. Is
this his box, if so ask him to log in as root and look in case his user has
not got permission to see or use it.
> Cartman. I've never used cron before but I'm assuming that it is not
> available to him from what he said. Is there an alternative
> to cron for servers that do not have it?
>
I think that there is a utility called "at".
> He needs to have a data file erased the first time it is
> wrote to every day.
I have no idea why you want to do that but thats none of my business anyway.
You could write a perl script and leave it in an endless loop. Write a
script and start it as a deamon.
H
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