This would be the rough pseudocode (a very rudimentary one).
$SIG{ALRM} = sub { exec (self) };alarm (2 mins); do stuff; There is a race between the alarm and do stuff. How it would affect your program, you can judge better /kk On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:25:58AM -0500, Bob Showalter wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: nafiseh saberi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:44 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: PERL instead of crontab > > > > > > hi all. > > I wish ,all of you be hopefull and happy. > > > > I write one program for control user in ISP > > (internet service provider) > > with crontab. > > it runs every 2 minutes and finish and > > 2 minutes later , run again .... > > > > in your mind.. > > how can I write it with perl ?? > > How about just: > > while(1) { > do_stuff(); > sleep(120); # wait 2 minutes > } > > If you really want the process to terminate and be restarted, well, > that's what cron is for. Maybe I don't understand the problem... > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
