Hi Lorenzo,

On Wed, 9 May 2012 11:19:30 -0500
Lorenzo Thurman <lore...@thethurmans.com> wrote:

> I'd like to write a perl daemon that runs every hour. I've found Proc::Daemon 
> and Timer::HiRes, but I'm not sure how to put the pieces together. In 
> particular, I'd like to know how to have a given sub routine called when the 
> timer expires. I don't need precision with the timer. Any ideas would be 
> greatly appreciated.
> 

Perhaps you should look at POE, IO::Async, IO::Lambda, Reflex, or AnyEvent for
a way to handle an event roughly every hour using an event loop. See
http://metacpan.org/ for more information.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish


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