i did not understand the part about working with samll scripts but you could
do somehting like this ... not tested
#!perl
while(1) {
if ( -s $flag_file_location ) {
system($command_to_execute) or warn "Cannot execute command\n";
sleep 5;
}
}
the above solution is really a crappy solution to your problems ... i can
already feel the cringes of some of the ppl on this list right now .. but it
is a start without going into forks and execs ... the perl cookbook has an
entire chapter dedicated to your solution and is a good starting point ...
another alternative (not pure perl) is to have a script like above without the
while loop and put it into a cron ...
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:45:54PM +0200, peter grotz shaped the electrons to read:
> hi all,
> I need a program to run like a daemon. it should do:
> look in a directory for some flag-files, if some exist the daemon
> should start other programs, then the daemon should sleep for let?s say
> 5 seconds and begin again...
> how must I create such a daemon and how can I stop him working with a
> small script.
> excuse me for this newbie-questions....
> thanks
>
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