If you dont understand my question then I assume you do not know unix or 
tail -f ?  I want to after a sleep of 5-8 seconds, send a kill signal to 
the previous command then increment the counter.  thank you! 

 
 
Derek B. Smith
OhioHealth IT
UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams






Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05/07/2004 10:57 AM

 
        To:     "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Beginners Perl 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
        cc: 
        Subject:        RE: process signals


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an application system command that is like tail -f in UNIX and
> I want to say
> 
> x=1
> while x < 10
> do
>         'command'  append to log
>         print "\n" append to log
>         issue HANGUP or KILL SIGNAL
>         x+=1
> done
> 
> How do I issue a hangup signal to this process using perl?

I'm not sure I understand your problem, but the perl way to send a signal 
is
with the kill() function. The way to catch a signal is by installing a
handler using the %SIG hash.

perldoc -f kill
perldoc perlipc



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