Your best bet is to use a cron job for this. Otherwise, you'd waste server resources. What happens when the process is killed or the server restarted?
On 4/3/06, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Anyone know of a way to create a loop (or something similar) that > automatically schedules the execution of a sub-routine periodically from > within a program, for example execute check() every 600 seconds or the > like? The program would be running as a daemon on the host. > > Thanks > > James Turnbull > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > >