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Tim
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Mar 25, 2000, 10:44 PM

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Hi,

I'd like some opinions on the best way I should write a script I'm working on. It is a membership script in which the members passwords will expire in 30 days.

I am planning to write epoch seconds to a file when they register. To expire I'll set up a cron job to compare the current time in epoch seconds to the one in the registration file.

Is this the best way to do it or is there a module or library I should be using?

Thanks in advance,

Tim


kencl
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Mar 27, 2000, 3:56 PM

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Not sure what you mean by epoch, and I'm not familiar with a module which would do it. A daily cron job should do it.

I would use an "expiry" date, calculated as current date/month plus one.

eg
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR>


($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
@months = (Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sept,Oct,Nov,Dec);
$NextMonth = ($mon + 1) % 12; # use remainder so that it works in December too!
$Expiry = "@months[$NextMonth] $mday";
</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Then in the cron job, grep for the day and if the month is this month, delete em, suspend em or whatever...

 
 


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