in reply to Trigger a cronjob in perl

I would first try to write the program so that it executes the script at the appropriate time. This is generally simple and minimizes latency. I would consider alternatives only after identifying a reason to do otherwise.

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Re^2: Trigger a cronjob in perl
by jvector (Friar) on May 29, 2009 at 14:52 UTC
    There is a machine I work on which has an arrangement like this. (Although as has been pointed out, the cron script is not 'triggered'.)

    The cron shell script runs each 5 minutes and just looks in an 'inbound' directory to see if there is anything there. If so it calls a second script (this one in Perl) which does some stuff with the file and then moves the file to a 'done' directory or to a 'failed' dir if it did not like the inbound file data . Simple and works.

    No time to do clever stuff with signature.
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