Hello Monks, I wrote a small script that needs to be able to run on a daily basis in order to work efficiently, but I'm not sure how to do this. I know under Liunx there is the whole crontab concept, but I am unfortunately not too familiar with it.

The problem is that I've created a web-based script that I want to be able to give to other people. For my self, I could simply find out how to edit my host's crontab and I would be set. For others without any computer experience, this might be able difficult task.

Is there a way to add a cronjob using Perl? I think the crontab is just a file, so could I just append a new line of information to that file in order to get the desired results. If I'm running this from the web, will I run into permission issues.

Any suggestions on the best way to setup a script to run daily would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -Eric

In reply to auto run perl scripts by emilford

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