Cron job Perl Script

chrisjc · #1 09-13-2007, 04:47 AM

I'm trying to get a perl script to run in the cron job to create / update a file every minute at present. The file runs ok when i just access it from a browser and creates the file however when i put it in the cron job it doesn't create a file. Does anyone know why? My cron job and file are below:

* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/chrisjc/public_html/auto.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Fcntl; #The Module

print "content-type: text/html \n\n"; #The header
sysopen (HTML, 'myhtml.html', O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0755) or die "No way hoe say!";
printf HTML "<html>\n";
printf HTML "<head>\n";
printf HTML "<title>My Home Page</title>";
printf HTML "</head>\n";
printf HTML "<body>\n";
printf HTML "<p align='center'>Here we have an HTML
page with a paragraph.</p>";
printf HTML "</body>\n";
printf HTML "</html>\n";
close (HTML);
print "END";

chrisjc · #2 09-13-2007, 05:05 AM

Fixed...stoopid me!

gtgeorge · #3 09-13-2007, 05:11 AM

If you are on anything less than a dedicated server it would be advised to adjust your cron job to a much higher level if you haven't already done so

HG's terms of service doesn't allow you to run a cron more often than every 15 min.