Howdy -

This is my first attempt at an answer to a question so go easy on me if i screw it up folks :P

I have a chunk of code that runs a df command on a specified directory, and will loop every x seconds as you choose. You can find it here for your reference ( the part you need is in the second script , ds.pl).

For quickness, the code i use to loop it is -

until (! $opt{time}) { # loop every specified seconds

{ check_disk_space($opt{dir} ) ; # run my df subroutine on specified d
+irectory

sleep ($opt{time}) # wait specified time, then begin again

}
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What this basically does is uses the GetOpt::Long module to accept and process command-line parameters entered by the user, and then uses the untilstatement to run the loop according to the parameters entered.

So what you could do in theory is put a line in your cron to start it (rjoseph.pl -dir =/usr/bin/perl -time=120) which would then run the script every two minutes on the /usr/bin/perl directory.

As I said, this is my first *serious* answer, so if I have rambled, I apologise, but I sincerely hope this helps, if only on the sleep thing. I hope you like Getopt though, cause it's been totally handy for me.

Cheers, jim

if ($mr_leisure) { bow; }
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this is still not finished