Crontab entry from perl

[Pankaj Kumar <pa...@flextronicssoftware.com>]

Hi,

I want to schedule a perl script in crontab using a CGI script. If i try to
append in the file ie /var/spool/cron/username then apache user does not
have rights to modify this. If i give root rights to apache then it could
be very harmful . how can i make entry into cron from script.


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Pankaj Kumar
Software Engineer
Flextronics Software Systems




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Re: Crontab entry from perl

[Badai Aqrandista <ba...@hotmail.com>]

>>I want to schedule a perl script in crontab using a CGI script. If i try 
>>to
>>append in the file ie /var/spool/cron/username then apache user does not
>>have rights to modify this. If i give root rights to apache then it could
>>be very harmful . how can i make entry into cron from script.
>You could have the CGI write out a file in /tmp or other and then have a 
>permenant root run cron or trivial dameon poll this file and add to a users 
>crontab based on the contents.
>
>I don't see what this has to do with modperl though :)

or roll your own cron:

http://search.cpan.org/~roland/Schedule-Cron-0.9/Cron.pm


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Re: Crontab entry from perl

["Philip M. Gollucci" <pg...@p6m7g8.com>]

> I want to schedule a perl script in crontab using a CGI script. If i try to
> append in the file ie /var/spool/cron/username then apache user does not
> have rights to modify this. If i give root rights to apache then it could
> be very harmful . how can i make entry into cron from script.
You could have the CGI write out a file in /tmp or other and then have a 
permenant root run cron or trivial dameon poll this file and add to a users 
crontab based on the contents.

I don't see what this has to do with modperl though :)


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