Re: [MacPerl] A few silly questions

[Adam witney <witneya@nmripo.nmri.nnmc.navy.mil>]

At 2:48 PM +0000 4/13/2000, Sveinbjorn Thordarson wrote:
>Hi there people
>
>Sorry to bother you with this, but I'm somewhat inexperienced in using Perl
>and there are two things that I want to be able to do but lack the knowledge
>to perform.
>
>1)  How do I make a Perl script execute itself regularly on a UNIX
>server?...say if I wanted to have a script that sent me updates to a server
>log via email regularly?  How do I make the script execute itself every few
>hours or something like that?

a utility called cron may be of use with this

>2)  If I need to know the IP number of a visitor to my site, what do I do?
>Say I wanted to have a user account and use cookies?  Any hints?

take a look at the pod in CGI.pm, this explains how to use cookies fairly well

HTH

adam
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