Be interseting to see what "perls" of wisdom the gurus comeup with but in the meantime can you just launch it into the backgound and redirect the output to a file? something likethis maybe # nohup perlprogram > proglog & Bret Alan Mead wrote: > > I have a script that needs to run all the time to glue two processes > together. I wrote it in Perl and it works but I have to start it up > manually and it writes to the screen. I want to convert it to run in the > background like a deamon, creating a PID file (I guess?), catching SIG's, > writing to a log file, being started during boot, controlled through > /etc/rc.d/init.d, etc. I'm not a crack UNIX programmer and so I thought I > would see if anyone had a boilerplate or sample program I could start from. > This is for Red Hat 6.x machines, if that matters. Thanks in advance > > -Alan > --- > Alan D. Mead / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Institute for Personality and Ability Testing > 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 61874 USA > 217-352-4739 (v) / 217-352-9674 (f) > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject.
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