Dan Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:31, James Edward Gray II wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2003, at 3:19 PM, Dan Anderson wrote: > > > > > I have 2 Linux boxes I want to talk to each other over the local > > > network using a Perl script. Is it possible to set up a > > > bidirectional pipe so that 2 perl daemons can communicate with > > > each other? How would I go about doing this and are there any > > > modules to help?
You're talking about a TCP connection, which is bidirectional. > > > > It's very possible and there are many modules to help. Help us help > > you though, what are you trying to do? It could make a big > > difference. > > I'm writing a perl daemon to do two things: back up important files on > multiple boxen so if one gets taken out another will survive, and sync > files in users directory from a main server -- i.e. I want to > be able to > do something like $ ./distribute.pl --file and have it sent to all > boxen's ~/distributed/ directory. You might look at the standard rdist(1) utility for this kind of thing. For crafting network daemons in Perl, Net::Daemon is a good place to start, IMO. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
