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Question about the "top" command line when using cron perl scripts
Hi paul, the command field does not relate to the crontab entry, if you run top from the command line on fedora, it shows what processeses are running. Thanks for that Tony, I can now see which scripts are being called and how they are being called -
Question about the "top" command line when using cron perl scripts
Hi, How do I get top to display the name of the file being interpreted rather than it just dislpaying perl under the command field? The cron files are making system calls to perl system perl somefile.pl or ./somefile.pl -
Postgres error when calling from a cron file
I managed to sort out the above problem, i went to the etc folder and then edited the ld.so.conf file by adding the line /usr/local/pgsql/lib Then i saved the file. Then went back to the shell window and typed ldconfig and pressed enter -
Postgres error when calling from a cron file
when i changed my cron file to 10 * * * * postgres /folderpath/file.pl I got an access denied message -
Postgres error when calling from a cron file
Hi guys I am running a cron file which calls a perl script. When I run the perl script from the command line it executes with no errors. But when postgres runs the cron file it gets an error. This is what my cron file looks like when it calls the perl file 10 * * * * root /folderpath/file.pl... -
system call and unwanted spaces.
Thanks, that has done the trick [thumbsup] -
system call and unwanted spaces.
Hi I have looked at this forum http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=820657 I am trying to make a system call to a perl program from another perl program. The program which is being called takes two numbers as its parameters. The first of which is a number read in from a text file ie... -
Question about using kill to stop a process.
I have managed to sort the problem out myself. I simply slice the array at index i with an length of 1. And then i output the array to the same file i originally read the values in from, using the code below. open(OUT,">pidfile.pid") || die "Cannot oben file for output\n"; foreach $line... -
Question about using kill to stop a process.
If we had processed line 2346 and killed it off. It would still remain in the pid file. How would I go about removing it from the pid file. When I initially load the pid file, I load its values into an array and then close it, like so open(FILE, "geturl.pid") or die ("unable to find file")... -
Question about using kill to stop a process.
Thanks for the response guys, either way works fine -
Question about using kill to stop a process.
Hi, perl newbie here. I need some help with how to use "kill" properly in perl. I have looked at other forum posts but I wasn't to sure about how to use them in my program. I have an array called @piddatta which reads in active process numbers from a pid file. I am using a loop in my main... -
Postgres time stamp calculations
Thanks Tony that has worked a treat. [thumbsup2] -
Postgres time stamp calculations
Hi perl, newbie here, I am working on a legacy system which has been developed in perl and postgres. I am trying to get time stamp values from the db and use them for calculations. I do the appropriate select * from table name, and then bind the values of the columns to perl variables. The...
