I have a script on a server for which I do not have the facility of setting up a cron job. The script in question simply does some house keeping and I simply need to call the script from my browser to activate it.

I set up a script on a server where I do have cron using Location: to call up the housekeeping script. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';

my $target = "http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/cd.pl";

print "Location: $target\n\n";

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However this doesn't do the trick as in calling the script itself - it simply emails me with the URL! (Which at least reminds me to do it :))

How can I call the script in such a way as to make it run automatically?

In reply to calling a script from another using cron by jonnyfolk

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