05-14-2003, 12:42 PM

Hi, I want to run a perl cron job on a mac, how does one go about such a task...

Cheers.

05-14-2003, 12:54 PM

In OS9?

Don't you mean OSX?

On OSX I'd assume it's doen in the standard unix way but I haven't personally tried it.

(The book on OSX I have does say that OSX has some standard clean up jobs already built in and that I should leave the machine on overnight if I want them to execute but I don't have any further details of what they are.)

Amen-Moses

05-14-2003, 01:05 PM

No, I mean OS 9. Running a cron job in OSX is handy enough, I just dont know how to do it in OS9. Ok, It might not be called a "cron" job, but I want somthing to run my little perl script everyday at midnight on a OS9. Nine.

Cheers.
Philip.

05-14-2003, 01:50 PM

Welcome aboard phillipMac...

05-14-2003, 02:20 PM

Hi, thanks, listen, I have no idea really about how to use Macs, I can use linux/unix/win, but this is all new to me. I have to get a perl script runing on a mac os 9 machine. Any ideas?

05-14-2003, 02:24 PM

Dunno if this will help:


http://www.sophisticated.com/support...eadme_151.html

Oh, and welcome.

Amen-Moses

05-14-2003, 02:30 PM

I have actually found a thing that will do a cron job on a os 9, now I have to find out how to get it to run a perl script. There is no command line interface (?) on OS 9, and I have no idea how to talk to machines without one...

05-14-2003, 02:32 PM

Sorry, FYI, its called CronoTask, http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4426 is the URL.

Should have included this in the previous post...

05-14-2003, 02:54 PM

I haven't investigated AppleScript yet but I would have thought that you could launch the perl script from within an AppleScript (which I also assume is launcheable from the "cron" app).

I've only had my iMac for a month and apart from using Classic (which is OS 9.2.2 based) to launch the odd OS 9 program I know virtually nothing about it, sorry I can't be of more help.

Amen-Moses

05-14-2003, 03:01 PM

Hi, Ok, I have found this MacPerl thing, which seems to be pretty much like Perl, except that you can run it on macintoshes pre OSX.

Then I can write up the perl script, and point to it from this CronoTask software, or whatever its called.

I think you are right though. I think you can kind of get some class of a command line interface with AppleScript. Although, its abviously going to be poor in comparison to the BSD UNIX interface that OSX offers now. Very clever move by Apple that one.

Take it easy.

Philip

06-03-2003, 12:17 AM

Call your script with applescipt. MacPerl should open automatically and run the script for you, but I don't know how well you will be able to use perl in integration with OS9... MacPerl on 9 is used for web development mainly (I haven't heard of anybody running cron jobs with it).

Let us know how you get on.