Hi, I am trying to find a means of monitoring a directory for activity. I would like a perl process to aware if a file has been dropped into a specific folder and then take some action.
In the past I have used cron for this but I was thinking this isn't the best choice because 1) You have to spawn a very frequently to try to achieve real-time action 2) The high frequency spawning of a perl script is quite expensive in terms of resources 3) There is the potential for one process to collide with another. One way would be to have a script that did while (1) and a sleep when nothing was found but again this seems "primitive". Is this something that a daemon module might help with? Does anyone have an idea that might help? TIA, Dp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
