I like the "cron in perl" idea offered in a previous post, but either of your solutions could be made much less wasteful with the simple addition of only having a 1 in N chance of firing. In your case, N might be somewhere around 800 - it would go off ~100 times a day, which should be often enough. The thing I don't like about the "monitor.cgi" idea is the name - it implies that you're planning on running it as a cgi (which I don't think will work, because IIRC cgi's terminate if the client disconnects/times-out). A script that runs all the time is a daemon (so it would be "monitor.pl") - and if it's robust enough, it shouldn't need monitoring. So, we're back to the "cron in perl"...
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