Hey Monks,

I've got a puzzler. I moved an app from Windows to Linux (CentOS 8 to be specific) to solve library problems. I've got a section of code that tries to determine if an email should be sent. The code looks like this:

    if ($out eq "D") {      # not responding to pings
        if ($lastmailed{"$email|$targ"} <= ($min - $squelch)) {
            $mailer = psMailer->new();
            $mailer->to($email);
            $mailer->from($emailfrom);
            $mailer->subject($emailsubject);
            $mailer->body("Asset $targ is not responding to pings.");
            $mailer->assetname($targ);
            $mailer->send();
        }
    }

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psMailer is a simple sendmail interface. That's not the problem. The $min var is calculated as int(time() / 60), so it should always be an int. The $squelch value comes from a settings file. If it is set to 10, the intent is that 10 minutes should pass between emails on a given topic.

This works in Windows, but in Linux the consistent result is that eleven minutes pass between the emails.

I don't get it. Do you have any ideas? TIA,

Lars

p.s. The perl version on CentOS 8 is 5.26.3. The version I was running in Windows was 5.28.1 (Activestate). I'm on Windows 7 x64.

In reply to Windows / Linux puzzler by lbrandewie

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