Re: [MacPerl] memory leaks?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 4:04 PM -0400 4/22/98, Peter Furmonavicius wrote:

} Hi.  I want to have a perl script backup a file once a day on one of my
} servers.  Should I have the script run continuously?  Is it better to
} have the script run just once a day?  If it runs all the time, should I
} worry about RAM memory leakage and the system eventually running out of
} memory?
}
} Does anyone have an example of a script that 'does something'
} once a day at a specific time?

Not a script, but there are several freeware and shareware programs that do
just that. The one I use is Chris Johnson's Cron
<http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/cron/cron.html>, but there are several
others, as a search for "cron" at the Info-Mac hyperarchive
<http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/> will show.  These are all more or less
modelled after the Unix cron utility.  Chris Johnson's uses a crontab which
is closely modeled after the Unix version to control what happens when,
which is why I use it.  Others have different ways of scheduling.  My
machine launches MacPerl droplets with Cron several times per day (when it
isn't running LinuxPPC launching Perl scripts with cron(8)).

}
} Thanks in advance.  - peter
}


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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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