At 06:28 PM 7/10/97 +0200, Dallman Ross wrote:
From: Kevin Kelleher [SMTP:kevink(_at_)MIT(_dot_)EDU]
One of the first things in my .procmailrc is a call
to a perl script:
:0c
| $HOME/bin/clocker
This checks a flag file to see whether it has already
run today, and if so exits. If it hasn't, it
changes the flag file and then does a bunch of stuff,
Is it just me, or do others have a philosophical objection
to triggering the overhead of perl for every single message
that comes in when it is easy to do this by other, less
"inflationary" means?
Yes, Era Eriksson <era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> pointed out the same thing,
so now I've changed it to the following:
DAY=`date +%m%d`
FLAGFILE=$HOME/conf/flag.$DAY
:0hic
| (if test ! -f $HOME/conf/$FLAGFILE; \
then touch $FLAGFILE; $HOME/bin/clocker; fi)
Kevin Kelleher