Thank you for the help.

I'm actually using a crontab service on a company intranet now. I built a custom flash widget that talks to NOAA's SOAP server and retrieves XML weather data. I parse the XML and send variables to flash for display in the widget. The crontab runs periodically in the background. It executes a perl script that talks to NOAA and tidys up afterwards. For the most part this service runs fine, but every now and then it fails and then I'll get a call because nobody knows what the weather is.

I'm going to be in this site all the time, but I hear what you're saying. Maybe I'll do it both ways.

I just put the taint switch back in the shebang line and ran the program. It appears to be working ... though I could've sworn it wasn't last Friday (until I removed the taint switch).

Thanks again for your insight guys.

In reply to Re: Unlinking Files and Taint Mode by Anonymous Monk
in thread Unlinking Files and Taint Mode by Anonymous Monk

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