manual cron job

kulls has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings,
I want to run my shell script for daily basis. Due to holidays i can't able to run the script daily.So i wrote one infinite loop - perl script, that will run daily basis.If so called "Temporary cron".I have just pasted the code here. If you people have a better idea, please suggest me .


use strict;
use warnings;

my @date=split(" ",localtime());
my ($cur_date,$script_flag);

$cur_date=$date[2];

while() {

 if($script_flag) {
   my $var = `echo RAJA`;
   print $var;
 }

 @date=split(" ",localtime());
 if($date[2]==$cur_date) {
   $script_flag=1;
   $cur_date=$date[2]+ 1;
 } else {
   $script_flag=0;
 }
 
 exit if($cur_date > 31); # As i need only for 31st of this month
}
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Re: manual cron job by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 25, 2006 at 11:48 UTC
Why are you not using `cron`? You seem to use some unixish programs, so `cron` should be available to you. If `cron` is no option, I found it convenient to more or less write my own `crond` in Perl by using Schedule::Cron - this has the advantage of still keeping all the configuration data more or less in `crontab` format. On Windows, I wrote Schedule::Cron::Nofork because the fork emulation stopped working (and forking) after three days or so, which was inconvenient.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: manual cron job by kulls (Hermit) on Jan 25, 2006 at 12:05 UTC
Sorry, Actually i'm running my script in server and i don't have a permission to run the cron job as well as installing any perl modules. Just timebeing , i'm utilizing my holodays through this script. If you can able to modify something, please suggest me. - kulls	[reply]
Re^3: manual cron job by CountOrlok (Friar) on Jan 25, 2006 at 15:07 UTC
If you can install a .pl file, then you can also install a .pm, especially one that is pure perl. Do a search on this site on how to install a CPAN module in a custom directory. -imran	[reply]
Re: manual cron job by lima1 (Curate) on Jan 25, 2006 at 17:04 UTC
this needs a lot of cpu time. if you are not allowed to use cronjobs, then i think the responsible person for that machine kills this job very soon. maybe add a sleep line....	[reply]