> 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?
>
> Some have suggested creating a file in /tmp
open(FILEHANDLE, "+>$filename");
would create a file for writing in the current directory named whatever
was in $filename.
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 7:37 PM
> To: Timothy Johnson
> Cc: ZHAO, BING; [EMAIL PROTECT
