Please bottom post... > 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 >
'cron' or better stated "the system scheduler" is the best choice. For your second option you would probably be looking at either C<sleep> or C<alarm>, but definitely not C<wait> it is for something *very* different. perldoc -f sleep perldoc -f alarm perldoc -f wait http://danconia.org > 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>
