Hello. I am trying to get the hang out mixing perl, catalyst and cron and can't seem to get the hang of it. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. So far, this "test" code which is supposed to write the time to a text file in Catalyst's home directory as file.txt... here is the code, could you please help? ( I know my code is horrific to look at, sorry ) ------- 
package MyApp::Controller::Root;

#use strict;
use warnings;
use parent 'Catalyst::Controller';
use Schedule::Cron;


sub test :Local {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

     my $cron = new Schedule::Cron(\&dispatch,detach=>1,pid_file=>"/ho
+me/phillip/MyApp/pid.pid");
     $cron->load_crontab("/var/spool/cron/perl");# I have no idea why 
+I added this... thought it might help, and never took it out.
     $cron->add_entry("* * * * *",\&blah);
     $cron->run(pid_file=>"/home/phillip/MyApp/pid.pid");
     $c->response->body('scheduled');
}
sub dispatch  {
  my ($self,$c)=@_;
  $c->log->debug('dispatched');}



sub blah {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
open DATA, ">>./file.txt" or die "can't open this $!";
#(my $s, my $usec) = gettimeofday;

my $a =localtime;
print DATA $a;
print DATA "\n";


close DATA;
    
}

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In reply to Schedule::Cron refuses to work as I intend by realn0whereman

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