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
