Start using Win32::Daemon to have what looks like a service (your script) act like a service and shut down gracefully when asked to do so.
http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon/ Steven -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Zeng Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: How to let a perl script quit when Windows shut down? Hi, I have a perl script that runs an infinite loop. It looks like this While(1){ Sleep(3); {do something} } My problem is: when I shut down Windows XP, The script doesn't stop. Windows put a dialog asking If I want to stop the script. What could I do in the script to let it stop Automatically? Ted zeng _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
