Hi guys, Suppose I have a Perl (called from a crontab file) script 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); cheers, A -- Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 (http://www.suse.com) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
