Running timed routines in Perl

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

Well, there is a first time for everything... and here is my first q in this forum. I have written a script which filters a mailinglist and it all works fine. My problem is, I have to run the script manually every time I want to filter the incomming mails. I have tried to write a second script to call the filter where I used a code like this to do so << while( 1 ){ //Call script sleep( 60 ); } And it worked fine, but it crashes after a couple of hours, and I need it to run like every second hour or so, also during the night. My question is, how can I write a code that can run during the day and call a second script every now and then with out crashing? It has to be stable since it has to run during the weekend as well? I need something stable to run on my windows machine since I don't have a server!!

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Re: Running timed routines in Perl by broquaint (Abbot) on Oct 28, 2002 at 12:27 UTC
For scheduling processes in Windows check out the cron on Windows node which provides several handy solutions. HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply]
Re: Running timed routines in Perl by husoft (Monk) on Oct 28, 2002 at 12:29 UTC
There's no need to write a second script to call the filter, use the Windows Scheduled Tasks. You can use it from your Command Prompt like this: c:\>at <when> /interactive what-to-run, or simply going to your control panel and clicking, Scheduled Tasks Hope this helps.	[reply]
Re: Running timed routines in Perl by AcidHawk (Vicar) on Oct 28, 2002 at 12:53 UTC
Well, I think we need a little more info about what microsoft os you are running on your server. Have you looked at AT the scheduler for win32 systems... you may also want to have a look at writing your script as a win32 service by using Win32::Daemon found at Roth's web site ----- Of all the things I've lost in my life, its my mind I miss the most.	[reply]