With a bit of your sage advice, I have written a simple Perl script to FTP files resident on my web server to a remote server. I need to repeat this process every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day. I can call the script using a server side include (shtml). With an automatic page refresh or javascript count down timer, the process works until a page refresh error due to timeout occurs. (No error appears in my error log when this happens.)

Perhaps this isn't the place to ask, but are there alternate methods to run the script to avoid the page refresh problem? I thought of php but virtual calls in php script appear to be locked out on my server. Also, I don't have shell or crontab access on the server.

In reply to Executing Perl by DrWho_100

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