a question about perl scripts

[Scott Berry]

Hi Tim,

I ended up putting it /usr/bin and got it set up today.

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: a question about perl scripts


> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:12 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
>> It's a cron job is what the eDNs group suggests.  I will put it in to
>> bin then and see what happens.
>
> Which bin?  For personal stuff, putting scripts in ~/bin/ is often
> appropriate.  For *system* stuff, that'd normally be /bin/.  For
> applications, something like /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/.  If it's
> called from a cron script, it could be run from almost anywhere, so long
> as the cron script calls it by the full path.  I'd expect their script
> to give you information about where to put it, if it needed putting
> somewhere in particular.
>
> I have something similar for the No-IP service.  It's a script (run
> from /usr/local/bin/noip2) which you start running from somewhere (such
> as /etc/rc.local), and it periodically checks for changes to your IP, by
> itself.
>
> -- 
> [tim at bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
> 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386
>
> Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
>
>
>
> -- 
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.14/883 - Release Date: 7/1/2007 
> 12:19 PM
>
>