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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!138.95.18.2!wilbur.sequent.com!newsfeed.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: localtime - how does it work? Date: 17 Dec 1996 02:30:45 -0800 Organization: dis. Lines: 31 Sender: nawaz921@elk.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imiv61mpii.fsf@elk.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <32b8149a.2202642@newnews.dial.pipex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elk.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: geoff.cox@dial.pipex.com's message of Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:23:09 GMT Cc: geoff.cox@dial.pipex.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1838 [ posted, cc'd in mail ] In article <32b8149a.2202642@newnews.dial.pipex.com> geoff.cox@dial.pipex.com (Geoff Cox) writes: I am trying to write a little perl code so that I can read from a file on a unix web server each day at say 13.00 hrs and email the contents to someone....... can you do this via crontab? man 1 crontab man 5 crontab you may need to get the sysadmins to set up stuff for you to use it. I guess again that I need to set a loop going which looks at the time (hours) and when it sees 13 it jumps out and opens the file etc and then overwrites the file and waits for the next 13...? how about you start it one day at 13:00, and use sleep(86400); to have it wait for the next 13:00? it'll be approximately correct for some time. use the crontab.