Cron Job

[HyperVirus]

Hello.

i have a webspace account from a company.

and i want to set up a cron job every min's or ever sec if thats possiable
but i cannot seem to point it to the right dir for the file.

on my ftp the file is located in /public_html/hlstats/hlstats.pl

and for the cron job i have tryed many diffrent locations
such as

/home/gameres/public_html/hlstats/hlstats.pl
/home/hlstats/hlstats.pl

does anybody know where i could point it to find the file.

Thanks for any help

Kev

[PWSowner]

Is that script written to be run as a cron job?

Try putting:
perl /home/gameres/public_html/hlstats/hlstats.pl
as the command.

[HyperVirus]

nope it didnt work

it gave me

Can't locate .//ConfigReaderSimple.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /home/gameres/public_html/hlstats/hlstats.pl line 50.

um

this is the link to the documentation what im following

http://docs.unitedadmins.com/hlstats/en/

Run hlstats.pl. It will by default run in the foreground (like HLDS) - to make it run in the background use something like:
shell> ./hlstats.pl &
HLstats is not required to run as root; running as an unprivileged user is recommened.

Most shells will let you run a program in a loop, so that if it dies/crashes it will be automatically restarted. For example, you might want to try:
shell> while true; do nohup ./hlstats.pl; sleep 5; done &
(BASH Syntax) this line creates a loop, which appends any output from hlstats.pl into a file called nohup.out. If, for some reason hlstats.pl crashes, your server will wait 5 seconds, then restart hlstats.pl.


but it tells to run as a background command and i have been told a cron job does this so i dont see the problem

any ideas ??

Kev

[HyperVirus]

ive edit that .pl file so it has the right links in the files

and now it says

Can't locate http://www.game-resource.co.uk/hlsta...eaderSimple.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /home/gameres/public_html/hlstats/hlstats.pl line 50.


it says it cannon locate but the file is there

any ideas ??

and it is possiable to set it to run all the time ?

[PWSowner]

Sounds like a problem with the setup. For the cron job it should just be
/home/gameres/public_html/hlstats/hlstats.pl
but a cron job won't work if the script isn't working.



For the path to the module, you don't use a URL, but the path on the server, like:
/home/gameres/public_html/hlstats/ConfigReaderSimple.pm