Cron question for perl script

Hello guys,

Anybody knows how to run cron job to call a cgi script, but what I need is passing in parameters
Example: /home/path/myscript.pl?x=123&y=abc
So how would I set up the cron so that it will execute that script WITH those params

One more question: to call the above script (with params) under unix (or linux), how would you put the params?

Thanks a lot,

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Son

crontab -e: edits a new crontab
crontab -r: removes a crontab
crontab -l: lists the crontab

then just fill in the paramaters for when you want it to run:

min hrs day mos dow script to run

30 15 * * mon /home/path/myscript.pl?x=123&y=abc

would run a crontab every monday at 3:30PM.

use man crontab for more help

[This message has been edited by tron (edited August 08, 2000).]

30 15 * * mon /home/path/myscript.pl?x=123&y=abc
isn't going to work. You'll get a perl error (or the person owning the crontab will get an e-mail with the error) saying that it can't find/run "/home/path/myscript.pl?x=123&y=abc".

You need to pass it on using the @ARGV array:

30 15 * * mon /home/path/myscript.pl "123" "abc"

then in the script say:
$x=$ARGV[0];
$y=$ARGV[1];

That will work.

[This message has been edited by JonLed (edited August 08, 2000).]

Heh, was fixing that as you where saying it.

[This message has been edited by JonLed (edited August 08, 2000).]

Thank guys!

So calling the script from the command prompt of unix I would do the same thing?
Is there a solution that I don't need to modify the code?

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Son

You'll need to modify the code if you plan on running it from the command line.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JonLed:
You'll need to modify the code if you plan on running it from the command line.[/quote]

Not entirely true if you use CGI.pm to parse the parameters -- just specify your command line arguments as name=value pairs, e.g.

/home/path/myscript.pl x=123 y=abc

Well I never use CGI.pm, so it's not possible for me .

Can you tell me more specific how to parse in CGI.pm? Thanks

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The following code assumes you have a page that has an <input> named "FileName".
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use CGI;
$q = new CGI;
print $q->header;
print $q->start_html;

# get filename from submitted form
my $filename = $q->param('FILENAME');

# if other parameters are available
# from the form.....
my $otherParm = $q->para('otherParm');
# and so on for any others.

# you might open file or showError and die.
open (FILE,$filename) or &showError("can not open $filename");
@FILE=<FILE>;
close(FILE);

print '<pre>'."@FILE".'</pre>';
print '</P>',$q->end_html;


sub showError
{
my $error = @_;
print "ERROR - $error<BR>n";
print '</P>',$q->end_html;
exit;
}
[/code]

oops....that should have been "a parameter named 'FILENAME'", not 'FileName'.