I'll leave it, thanks. ;) (Hope that kind of humor is accepted here)

Some of the scripts invoked by cron are shell scripts. I think about 50% are perl, and the rest csh (I know, I know--that's the default here).

Also, I'm probably not experienced enough to write a module, and I don't really know what an API even is.

We do, however, plan to use perl wrappers for all 'interesting' cron jobs, the main purpose of which is to mark the STDERR output to distinguish it visually from the STDOUT on the web page.

The CGI thing seems more and more intriguing; unfortunately I have much less experience with CGI than regular perl, plus CGI is kind of a pain the way they have it configured here.

I think I may propose to keep the "sweeping" algorithm for now, but think about upgrading in the future.

Thanks for any and all comments! :) -Terrence

In reply to Re^2: Accessing cron job output from a web page? by OfficeLinebacker
in thread Accessing cron job output from a web page? by OfficeLinebacker

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