a question about perl scripts

[Scott Berry]

It's a cron job is what the eDNs group suggests.  I will put it in to bin 
then and see what happens.

Scott

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From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: a question about perl scripts


> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 09:34 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
>
>> I have a perl script which I made a directory for in my home directory
>> and I am currently unable to get the file to run.  What permissions
>> should be put on a pl file?  I am assuming read and execute.
>
> I'm not sure about perl scripts, but other script types usually require
> some of the following:
>
> Being readable and executable.
>
> You entering the path to the script to run, rather than just the name.
> e.g. /home/tim/runme or ./runme
>
> Or putting the script into a ~/bin/ directory that's in your path (then
> you don't have to enter the path).
>
> The start of the script having a shebang line saying what's supposed to
> run the script.  e.g. #!/usr/bin/perl
>
>> All this script does is go up  to everydns.net and make sure that my
>> web server address always refers to my ip through A records.  Thanks
>> for the help.
>
> Perhaps a script like that shouldn't be run from the homespace.  You'd
> normally have a server running all the time, so it'd be some form of
> daemon or cron job.
>
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