stg_in2009

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Hi All,

I have a perl script that needs to be run from all Login users say once a week. How to accomplish this? I dont want this to run at startup. From crontab it needs to be set in each users login. Is there a better way to do this?
I require my perl script to run at particular time on every saturday from all login. Any workaround to this requirement?
Server OS: RHEL 3
Kindly guide me.

Thanks

STG

centosboy

Depends what the script needs doing. Maybe it could be run from roots crontab and just cycle via each users home dir??
Or just add the cron to a file in normal cron format, and then
use a for loop to add to the crontab of each user.
something like


Few ways to do this...dpends on what the actual script running from the cron does...

stg_in2009

Hi,
Thanks centosboy for your valuable reply.
Actually I have a perl script that checks for ClearCase views and deletes view-private files in it. This way it is possible to cleanup the ClearCase views. But the issue is, the ownership of all the view-private files in the ClearCase views are with the users who creates it. So, if I run this script from root it will not delete them.
I think to complish this, I have 2 options:
1. I have to have 2 scripts. First script changes the mode to 777 for all view-private files from the users login and then run another script (my present script) from root to actually delete them.

2. Else run this script from all login users without their knowledge. This will cleanup all the views in our setup. This is my goal.
The script is already ready but I am struck on how to implement it.

Any suggestion would be of great help.

Thanks again.
Regards

STG

chrism01

Given the 1st Perl script runs a root, it's got enough access/power to chmod the files, then delete them.
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/chmod.html