run a perl script automatically every 24 hours

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Re: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by McDarren (Abbot) on May 24, 2009 at 06:01 UTC
On a Linux system, you want `man 5 crontab` On a Windows sytem, you want the `Task Scheduler` (which is available via the Control Panel, I believe). Cheers, Darren	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2009 at 07:03 UTC
or `help at`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2009 at 07:04 UTC
i did not get your point	[reply]
Re^4: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by McDarren (Abbot) on May 24, 2009 at 07:24 UTC
Re^5: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2009 at 11:05 UTC
Re^2: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2009 at 07:02 UTC
thanks for the input.Is there anyway to run the script itself automatically every 24 hours i mean not using task scheduler (i am on windows)	[reply]
Re^3: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by McDarren (Abbot) on May 24, 2009 at 07:21 UTC
Why wouldn't you use the Task Scheduler? You could always do something like: `while (1) { # your script goes here. sleep 86400; }` [download] But that would be a bit silly. Use the Task Scheduler - that's what it is for. Or, you could look at Cron for Windows. Or maybe CronW, which appears to be a Perl implementation of the same. Dude - spend 1 minute Googling. It doesn't bite ;)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: run a perl script automatically every 24 hours by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2009 at 07:58 UTC