This particular example just touches a file. I had to make sure the webuser had permissions to do this before it would work.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # debug mode BEGIN { # use CGI::Carp qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser); # &carpout (\*STDOUT); } use CGI; my $q = new CGI; print $q->header(); print "<center>\n"; &print_at_form; &create_at_job if $q->param('Submit'); ### Subroutines ### sub print_at_form { print $q->startform(); print "Hour"; print $q->popup_menu(-name=>'hour', -values=>[1..12]); print "Minutes"; print $q->popup_menu(-name=>'minute', -values=>[qw/00 05 10 15 20 +25 30 35 40 45 50 55/]); print "Day"; print $q->popup_menu(-name=>'day', -values=>[qw/Today Mon Tue Wed +Thu Fri Sat Sun/]); print $q->radio_group(-name=>'meridiem', -values=>[qw/am pm/]); print $q->submit(-name=>'Submit'); print $q->endform(); } sub create_at_job { my $string = 'at ' . $q->param('hour') . ':' . $q->param('minute') + . ' ' . $q->param('meridiem') . ' ' . $q->param('day'); my $pid = open(ATJOB, "| $string") or die "Couldn't fork: $!\n"; print ATJOB "touch /foo/bar/some_file\n"; close(ATJOB); print "Your job will run $string"; }

In reply to Web Interface to the at Command by kingman

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