I'm a beginner with perl and have been tasked with the following, which I do not understand.

I have a perl script that executes a third party api (via LWP) to obtain attendee information (json format) and load that data into a db. I have been asked to move this script to an internal machine (no web access) and, using ftp and cron jobs, execute the internal perl on a remote machine (with web access).

It doesn't seem to make sense to execute the local script remotely over an ftp connection but I'm not sure whether it is and is just foreign to me. What I'm looking for is something of a birds eye perspective as to how this type of scenario would / should typically be approached.

In reply to execute local script on remote machine via ftp & crontab by igrepstuff

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