CRON the one and the best solution to all your problems. For example if you want to execute a job /home/home_dir/abcxyz/getdata.pl every one hour here is what you do.
(1.) At UNIX $ prompt do a crontab -e (2.) It opens a writable file (Mostly in "vi" unless ofcourse you have not changed nay settings for Cron) (3.) Add this line to the file "0 * * * * /home/home_dir/abcxyz/getdata.pl" (4.) save the file You are done. What this would do is to run the job getdata.pl every hour of every day. So modify getdata.pl as per your requirements and leave the rest to UNIX Kernel. Hope this helps. Nandu -----Original Message----- From: Ishwor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:03 AM To: Perl Beginners List Cc: Budi Santosa Subject: Re: time managing I am not a guru for Unix or Perl but i suppose u could to write a call to a function that * Pulls the job * wait for an hour after every pull? maybe using something like wait()? If anyone else could give a pointer on how to do the second point. Would be great. Cheers On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:35:01 -0400 (EDT), Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Budi Santosa wrote: > > > What do you mean with a cron job? > > You're going to have to take some initiative to figure some of these > things out with a search engine. Here's the first hit when you put > "cron" into Google: > > <http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html> > > This is fundamental Unix knowledge. Maybe it would help to have a copy > of a good manual handy. There are a lot of good books out there, but I > particularly liked _Unix Power Tools_ when I was getting started, and > I still like the current version of it now. > > -- > Chris Devers > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > -- ::Ishwor:: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
