I believe I have an answer to this now ... In talking with a local perl programmer, he mentioned the Daemon modules on CPAN. I did some research and it looks like I can use the Proc::Daemon module to do exactly what I want. Basically, it forks itself immediately and "detaches" itself from the main program... So, if I call this with system(), the call returns immediately...
I still have no "easy" way to return the PID of this new process, so I'm going to resort to a directory full of .pid files ... That, at least, will get me to the point where I can start working on this! Any comments/suggestions regarding this are greatly appreciated! Friz On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 09:11, Jason Frisvold wrote: > But, if I go the way of the fork, the program cannot be broken down into > lots of mini-programs which are designed to do a single job.. everything > would have to be rolled into one larger program with (I'm guessing here) > multiple fork points to handle each different type of system I'm trying > to run ... > > I *think* I can do it with a wrapper program that launches the new > program and reports back the pid, but that doesn't seem right to me ... > It seems that this is something that Perl should be able to do, but I > can't figure out how to do it ... > > How about an example ... The main program is called monitor.perl ... > While it's running, it spawns a second program called pingit.perl and a > third called snmpit.perl ... I want both pingit and snmpit to be able > to run concurrently while monitor watches to ensure that those programs > don't run too long, don't report back errors, and does some calculations > to ensure that it's running efficiently... > > How do I allow monitor.perl to spawn pingit.perl and snmpit.perl and > still continue running itself? > > -- > --------------------------- > Jason H. Frisvold > Senior ATM Engineer > Penteledata Engineering > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RedHat Certified - RHCE # 807302349405893 > --------------------------- > "Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone > and unmoving, it is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the > source of all programs. I do not know its name, so I will call it the > Tao of Programming." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
