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Running PERL script in background
Hi all I would like to run a PERL script as a background task on my NV+. This script will read a monitoring device connected on the USB port to monitor my electricity usage to write the result into...
In order to do this, you will need to SSH into the NV box and do the following:
1) Create a directory maybe in your /home directory
2) Do a Chmod 755 on the new directory
3) Place the perl script in that directory and Chmod 755
4) You will need to edit your crontab file so that it will run your script at a certain time and interval.
--The crontab file should be located at this path in the NV /usr/bin/crontab.
--Edit it with your VI editor
--Add something like this to the crontab file:
30 11 * * * /your/directory/whatever.pl
See this url for specific parameters that you can set on the crontab file: http://www.thesitewizard.com/general/set-cron-job.shtml
I hope this helps.
1) Create a directory maybe in your /home directory
2) Do a Chmod 755 on the new directory
3) Place the perl script in that directory and Chmod 755
4) You will need to edit your crontab file so that it will run your script at a certain time and interval.
--The crontab file should be located at this path in the NV /usr/bin/crontab.
--Edit it with your VI editor
--Add something like this to the crontab file:
30 11 * * * /your/directory/whatever.pl
See this url for specific parameters that you can set on the crontab file: http://www.thesitewizard.com/general/set-cron-job.shtml
I hope this helps.
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