On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:20 PM, cfaust-dougot <cfa...@doyougot.com> wrote: > Long story short, I'm in the process of moving to another machine. I wanted > to ask you though, is there any modules I should stay away from loading in > startup.pl? Should DBI and DBD be loaded within each script and not within > startup?
You just need to avoid opening files or sockets before forking. It's fine to load DBI/DBD. > I've always been under the impression that if it was a module that I was > going to be using in the majority of my scripts then I should put it in > startup. That's correct. - Perrin