Re: a script that queries database periodically

Why not use perl with  DBI?  If you know php, perl is just as easy.

Bernie Huang wrote:

> I was thinking of writing up a PHP script and put into crontab, which is
> somehow easier than a shell script, but PHP is an apache module, so I
> cannot execute PHP under crontab (it has to be executed in a browser
> right?).
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Bernie