Hi Monks, I have wrote 2 scripts which will allow people to signup for accounts on my server from the web. This is how it works:
when the user fills in the username/password they require on the website the first perl script checks the input for invalid data, if it passes this test, it then writes the following line to account.log file located in the cgi-bin directory with the script:
myperlscript --username=bob --password=mypass --domain=foo.com

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Cron then goes and runs the below every 10 minutes. 
sh /home/httpd/www.foo.com/cgi-bin/account.log

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This will run the contents of account.log. The myperlscript script then goes away and creates the account, sets up permissions, makes changes to postfix....
My question to the monks is: Is there a better way of doing this without going all round the houses like i have?
Or
Is there a way i can get the script to enter into the account.log file and delete the first line in there, thus clearing the command to create the account it has just created, so the next time cron runs account.log, it doesn't attempt to create the same account again?
Thanks

In reply to Script run as a Cron Job by Anonymous Monk

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