Somebody asked the question about how to run a cron job to determine which perl modules need updates a few days back. I'd intended to answer it, but apparently it made it to my bitbucket first... You'll have to have CPAN configured first. But from the CPAN.pm documentation (http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.76/lib/CPAN.pm#Programmer's_interface): # list all installed modules that have newer version on CPAN perl -e 'use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->r;' Which is nice from the command-line, but prints a lot of extraneous info. So here's the script they list that you could save off and run via a cron job: # list all modules on my disk that have newer versions on CPAN for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){ next unless $mod->inst_file; next if $mod->uptodate; printf "Module %s is installed as %s, could be updated to %s from CPAN\n", $mod->id, $mod->inst_version, $mod->cpan_version; } And here's how you could update everything to the current recommendations from the command-line: # install everything that is outdated on my disk: perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install(CPAN::Shell->r)' cheers, Garrett -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com