One note with that code is that you may want to structure it something like this:
use vars qw[$dbuser $dbpass $dbsecret_time];
my $secretfile = '/path/db.txt';
my $secretfile_modtime = stat($secretfile)[9];
if (!$dbsecret_time or $dbsecret_time < $secretfile_modtime)
{
open FILE, '<', $file or die $!;
chomp(my ($auth) = <FILE>);
($dbuser, $dbpasswd) = split('\t', $auth);
close FILE;
$dbsecret_time = $secretfile_modtime;
}
The reason is that if you ever want to run this code under mod_perl or something similar, you probably won't want to hit the dbpass/secret file more often than necessary.
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