Re: St. Valentine's Day preperation script

++silent11
Very enjoyable. For a lot of people Perl is a tool to automate tedious maintenance tasks, and your script is a perfect example of this. Thank you for this useful contribution to the community!

I would write this into a cron job, but the regularity of it might raise suspicions (an email received every Tuesday and Friday at 3:14 PM... hmm...). I wonder if I could somehow randomize the time of the cron. Or maybe code a daemon in Perl that would pick a time randomly within a certain range.

OOH! And to make sure it doesn't get sent while I'm home sick or whatever, I can have it system("w | grep 'LAI'") to make sure I'm logged in! Oh, the possibilities...

LAI
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Re: Re: St. Valentine's Day preperation script by sauoq (Abbot) on Jan 28, 2003 at 00:01 UTC
I wonder if I could somehow randomize the time of the cron. Don't bother. Just run it from cron every ten minutes or so (during likely hours of course) and send the message `if rand 100 > 98` or something. -sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";	[reply] [d/l]