Hiya Monks,

I've been having an excruciating time scheduling the deletion of a session file in a CGI script. It seems like it would be simple enough to make a system call: 

system "rm $session_file | at now + 1 minute";

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But what happens there is the rm command executes right away and I lose my session file immediately, and the schedule has nothing in it, apparently. I try: 
system "at now + 1 minute < rm $sesson_file";

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I get a "garbled time" complaint in my Apache logs. I've tried all kinds of crazy indirection, like: 
my $command = "rm $session_file;
system "echo $command | at now + 1 minute";

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and a couple dozen permutations to no avail. I think I'm not grasping something about how perl is executing this stuff. What am I not understanding correctly? Any input would be appreciated.

In reply to executing "at" from perl by rastoboy

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