No crontab

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

Is it possible to use the cron facility on one website host server to run a script on another completely separate and unrelated site? I look after a few sites, and I am stuck because one particular host does not have cron but the site requires a script to be invoked at regular intervals. Can I use the cron on another site to make this happen?

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Re: No crontab by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 30, 2002 at 00:24 UTC
If you have properly set up your `ssh` keys, you can use `cron` on one site to `ssh` into another one at regular intervals and run a script on it. (Btw, this doesn't have anything to do with Perl - as the answer would have you guess.) Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re: No crontab by Anonymous Monk on Oct 31, 2002 at 01:57 UTC
Thank you for replying to my question. I had not heard of ssh before; now I have researched it a little, I am frightened to try any contact with the host servers other than ftp and using a standard web browser. I have not found anything within Perl to access other sites except redirection ( print redirect ), but as I seem to discover something new every day, I thought there may well be lots of commands just waiting to be used! I guess I was hoping access would be the same as from a browser. Thank you again for your trouble.	[reply]