On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:07:51 +0100, Dan wrote: > i don't even know if this is going to be possible, but i'll ask anyway. > my perl program runs as a constant process in the background. is there > anyway i can make another program/script send a HUP, or any kind of, signal > to the process, to say, force a re-read of a database or something, to get > it to act on data sent by a user from a website or something. i don't want > to go to the trouble of trying to build a webserver into the program as > well, if i can simply send a signal to the program, then get the website to > enter data into a specific part of a database, then send a signal to the > process id to get it to (re)read that portion of the database.
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