All I needed to do is add:
$SIG{HUP} = 'IGNORE';
I tested it by killing my terminal window while an active vpn
connection and confirmed that my perl script runs it's post vpn
cleanup stuff even after the terminal window closed.
Thanks Shawn!
Ariel C.
On Feb 10, 2:39 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote:
> Jeff Peng wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Ariel Casas <ariel.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> My question is; how do I keep my perl script from dying if my shell
> >> window accidentally closes while my perl script is paused at the
> >> system function portion of my script?
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Make a daemon process for running in the script, or use nohup:
>
> > nohup perl a.pl
>
> > HTH.
>
> > Jeff.
>
> You can do the same thing inside Perl with %SIG:
>
> $SIG{HUP} = 'IGNORE';
>
> See `perldoc perlvar` and search for /\%SIG/
>
> --
> Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
> Shawn
>
> Programming is as much about organization and communication
> as it is about coding.
>
> I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your
> thingy.
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