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Old 12-23-2019
Perl script with lock to execute only once in a day

Hi,

I am new to perl and have a script to which i want to ensure that no matter how many ever times i execute the script it should execute only once per day. Cronjob is not a safe method as I want to built in capability inside the script.
 

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Catalyst::Engine::Apache::MP13(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Catalyst::Engine::Apache::MP13(3pm)

NAME
Catalyst::Engine::Apache::MP13 - Catalyst Apache mod_perl 1.3x Engine SYNOPSIS
# Set up your Catalyst app as a mod_perl 1.3x application in httpd.conf <Perl> use lib qw( /var/www/MyApp/lib ); </Perl> # Preload your entire application PerlModule MyApp <VirtualHost *> ServerName myapp.hostname.com DocumentRoot /var/www/MyApp/root <Location /> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler MyApp </Location> # you can also run your app in any non-root location <Location /some/other/path> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler MyApp </Location> # Make sure to let Apache handle your static files # (And remember to remove the Static::Simple plugin in production) <Location /static> SetHandler default-handler </Location> </VirtualHost> DESCRIPTION
This is the Catalyst engine specialized for Apache mod_perl version 1.3x. Apache::Registry While this method is not recommended, you can also run your Catalyst application via an Apache::Registry script. httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Registry Alias / /var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_registry.pl/ <Directory /var/www/MyApp/script> Options +ExecCGI </Directory> <Location /> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Registry </Location> script/myapp_registry.pl (you will need to create this): #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use MyApp; MyApp->handle_request( Apache->request ); METHODS
ok_constant OVERLOADED METHODS
This class overloads some methods from "Catalyst::Engine::Apache". $c->engine->finalize_headers SEE ALSO
Catalyst, Catalyst::Engine, Catalyst::Engine::Apache. AUTHORS
o Sebastian Riedel <sri@cpan.org> o Christian Hansen <ch@ngmedia.com> o Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org> o Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by The "AUTHORS". This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.10.1 2010-11-26 Catalyst::Engine::Apache::MP13(3pm)
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