Cron job for Perl script

Turbocapitalist · 09-25-2017, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by pdobrien3

Ok, I made a backup copy of the script and called it idsBackgroundChron.pl. Then everywhere there was a “./“, I filled in the relative path. Should this work? Also, twice in the script there was “../“. What is the difference between ./ and ../?

It should work, in principle.

./ is an abbreviation for the current working directory. ../ is an abreviation for the directory immediately above the current working directory. This guide looks fairly good with a section on relative and absolute paths: https://ryanstutorials.net/linuxtutorial/navigation.php

pdobrien3 · 09-26-2017, 02:38 PM

So.........thank you very much Turbocapitalist,

I was able to use the script to call the Perl statement. I tried to modify the Perl statement itself several times and couldn’t get it to run properly. Also, scripts are now in /var/www with the proper permissions.

Thanks again.