thank you shlomi ill try that Chaitanya
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chaitanya, > > On Monday 24 May 2010 16:19:25 Chaitanya Yanamadala wrote: > > hai > > i have a perl script which will automatically check for the existing > files > > and then ftp them to a server, this one runs in a loop until i kill it, > now > > what i wants is i want to make this as a service so that it can keep on > > running until i kill the service. so does any one have an idea how to do > > this?? > > > > A process that runs in the background uninterrupted is known as a "daemon" > in > UNIX-land (Linux is historically just one of the many UNIX flavours). There > are some CPAN modules that encapsulate the details of daemonising a > process, > and they can be found here: > > http://search.cpan.org/search?query=daemon&mode=all > > I cannot vouch for the quality of any of them, since I haven't tried them. > "perldoc -q daemon" recommends http://search.cpan.org/dist/Proc-Daemon/ . > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism > > God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then > decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . >
