siegfried wrote:
I have a cron job running perl and it is taking a very long time -- sometimes over 24 hours. How can I have cron schedule my job daily, or even hourly, and have the perl code exit if a previouse instance of the job is still running?
perldoc Unix::PID # job.pl that gets cron'ed: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Unix::PID '/var/run/job.pid'; # your code here # -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>