Re: daemons ???

2003-02-08 Thread Rob Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > well i really need a server :-) > thanks, > KM Hi K. I really think you ought to come clean on what you're actually trying to do to give Wiggins (and the rest of us) a sporting chance of helping you :) The bottom line is that you can write a daemon in

Re: daemons ???

2003-02-08 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, well i really need a server :-) thanks, KM Still confused as to why, but ok... How will your clients be connecting to the server? I would suggest having a look at: perldoc -f fork perldoc -f

Re: daemons ???

2003-02-08 Thread km
Hi all, well i really need a server :-) thanks, KM On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > well to make it clear -- i need to make a server -- a constantly running > > process --

Re: daemons ???

2003-02-08 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, well to make it clear -- i need to make a server -- a constantly running process -- suppose if i want to get a daily report of the frequency of all the users logging in and out on the system from the daemon written in perl -- how do i do that ? thanks, KM You

Re: daemons ???

2003-02-08 Thread km
Hi, well to make it clear -- i need to make a server -- a constantly running process -- suppose if i want to get a daily report of the frequency of all the users logging in and out on the system from the daemon written in perl -- how do i do that ? thanks, KM --

Re: daemons ???

2003-02-08 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, how to write daemons in perl ? does it have such a support ? if so which module should i use? kindly enlighten me -- thanks in advance -- First question, do you want a "daemon" as in a process that is started, then exec's a new process without a controlling te

RE: daemons

2002-11-28 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
There are some modules from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/) you can use. I would suggest: 1. Net::Daemon http://search.cpan.org/author/JWIED/Net-Daemon-0.37/lib/Net/Daemon.pm 2. give a look to Net::Server as well, for general purpose. http://search.cpan.org/author/RHANDOM/Net-Server-0.84/lib/Net

Re: daemons are not simple or for the feint of heart was - Re:Automate the running of my script

2002-04-17 Thread Chas Owens
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 15:24, drieux wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 11:55 , Chas Owens wrote: > [..] > > Oopsy, forgot the sleep call. That is what I get for just posting code > > without testing it first. Well, I did say something like this > />. Maybe it should look more like th