On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 20:38, John W. Krahn wrote: > 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? > > > > > > 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. > > Could you not use NFS to mount the users directories from the main > server and use the appropriate RAID arrays and backups on the main > server?
Actually, that's a good idea too. Thanks for your suggestions! -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
