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9.7

My PERL script is no longer updating the main page on my web site

Asked by wvanthony in Perl Programming Language

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I have a PERL script that is scheduled to run via CRON.  It runs every minute of every day of every week of every month, etc. (* * * * *), and it updates a particular section of the page.  It has been running without fail for months, and today I made the following changes:

1 - I made a copy of the web page, saving the new copy as index_flash.php.  The original file was called index_flash.htm.

2 - I modified the PERL script to reflect the new file name, index_flash.php, per the script snippet, below.  

After doing this, the new page does not get updated.  I checked the permissions on both files, and they are identical (644).  Does anyone have an idea as to what might be going on?Start Free Trial
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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# by: Michael D. McClellan
 
$random_file = "/public_html/random/this_day_in_history.txt";
$index_file = "/public_html/index_flash.php";
 
sleep 12;
open(FILE,"$random_file");
@FILE = <FILE>;
close(FILE);
$phrase = rand(@FILE);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
($one,$two) = split(/%%/,$FILE[$phrase]);
($two,$dog) = split(/\n/, $two);
 
 
open(TEST,"$index_file");
@test = <TEST>;
close(TEST);
 
open(REAL,">$index_file");
foreach $line (@test) {
	if ($line =~ /HISTORYDATE/) {
		print REAL "<!--HISTORYDATE-->$one\n";
	}
	elsif ($line =~ /HISTORYSTUFF/) {
		print REAL "<!--HISTORYSTUFF-->$two\n";
	}
	else {
		print REAL "$line";
	}
}
close(REAL);
 
 
print "Hello World!";
exit;
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