-start- > "Costa, Michael J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >at 12/17/2001 09:45 AM
>Good Morning All: >I am using perl on a Sun Solaris server to do data transfer with outside >companies. With one of the companies I exchange data with, the files must be >sent in a particular order. What I want to do is when the last file in the >chain is received on my server it will kick-off automated processing. >The automated processing will begin encrypting the files and staging them to >be send to our trading partner. As processing is completed on one file, I >want the perl script that is running to kick off a successor job (which will >be the same perl script with different parms) to process the next file in >the chain. This process need not return to the script which called it. I do >however what the "spawning" script to run to completion. Have you considered forking? (Parallel::Forkmanager) Grant Hopwood. Valero Energy Corp. (210)370-2380 PGP Public Key: Ldap://certserver.pgp.com nuclear iraq bioweapon encryption cocaine korea terrorist _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list. To unsubscribe go to http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/subscribe/perl-unix-users
