At 6:53 AM -0500 4/12/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am an inexperienced Perl hacker with a problem. I am writing a script that
>takes a long time to execute. Each invocation may take 2+ minutes to
>process.
>While the script is processing I do not want the user to have to wait.
Then tell the user to invoke the script this way:
nohup your_script.pl &
The script will run in the background, and will keep running even
after the user logs out.
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Ron Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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