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Old February 4th, 2001, 04:20 PM
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I would like the host to automatically call a script, say maintain.pl, every night, say at 3:00am, that would perform database maintenance and create a report of the site activity for that day.

How does one schedule a routine execution like this? Or is this something that has to be done with perl or the scripting language?

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Old February 5th, 2001, 06:01 AM
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Ask your host if they allow you to run cron.

* 3 * * * /server/path/to/maintain.pl > /server/path/to/report.txt
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Old February 5th, 2001, 01:29 PM
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Thumbs up sweet!
yes, cron is allowed/installed on my host. exactly what I was looking for. Thanks you are awesome!
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Old February 5th, 2001, 01:43 PM
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PS,

why would it not be:

0 3 * * * /www/cgi-bin/maintain.pl

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* 3 * * * /www/cgi-bin/maintain.pl

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Old February 5th, 2001, 03:24 PM
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Yes, it should be 0 3 * * * /www/cgi-bin/maintain.pl, or else it would run at 03:00AM to 03:59AM for 60 times. Sorry, I typed it to fast and didn't preview it.
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