Re^2: Scheduling a shell script to run every wednesday at 10 AM with perl without cron

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Re^3: Scheduling a shell script to run every wednesday at 10 AM with perl without cron by stevieb (Canon) on Sep 09, 2018 at 19:04 UTC
What does your script do? I presume it doesn't do anything root-level, or you wouldn't have permission to use those things either. Every Unix user has their own crontab; you don't need to use system cron (which would in fact require root level permissions). Personally, if this is for work and you absolutely require permissions to run cron as root, I'd be speaking to management as to why they require the extra work on your behalf when something built-in and wholly reliable already exists. Get the permissions you need, or perhaps rethink your ambitions. What is it you're trying to do, anyway?	[reply]
Re^3: Scheduling a shell script to run every wednesday at 10 AM with perl without cron by hippo (Archbishop) on Sep 09, 2018 at 21:51 UTC
If you don't have permission to run a cron job then you probably also don't have permission to run effectively the same thing from perl - seeing as how there's no real difference. If your problem is an adminstrative one then you'll need to find an adminstrative solution.	[reply]
Re^3: Scheduling a shell script to run every wednesday at 10 AM with perl without cron by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 09, 2018 at 19:05 UTC
Is there some reason you can't ask your systems administrator to review the script abs setup the cron job?	[reply]