Hallo. Jason [Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 10:11:45 PM]: JF> But, if I go the way of the fork, the program cannot be broken down into JF> lots of mini-programs which are designed to do a single job.. everything JF> would have to be rolled into one larger program with (I'm guessing here) JF> multiple fork points to handle each different type of system I'm trying JF> to run ...
JF> I *think* I can do it with a wrapper program that launches the new JF> program and reports back the pid, but that doesn't seem right to me ... JF> It seems that this is something that Perl should be able to do, but I JF> can't figure out how to do it ... JF> How about an example ... The main program is called monitor.perl ... JF> While it's running, it spawns a second program called pingit.perl and a JF> third called snmpit.perl ... I want both pingit and snmpit to be able JF> to run concurrently while monitor watches to ensure that those programs JF> don't run too long, don't report back errors, and does some calculations JF> to ensure that it's running efficiently... JF> How do I allow monitor.perl to spawn pingit.perl and snmpit.perl and JF> still continue running itself? Look at this article, i think it will be usefull for you. http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col41.html -- Have a nice day. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
