creating a daemon

2005-09-02 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, I have made a simple daemon using Net::Daemon but if the client sends a content that has more lines, the daemon takes each line as a separate content. Are there any methods to specify that all the lines starting from a certain special character and ending on another special character are a

creating a daemon

2001-09-03 Thread peter grotz
hi all, I need a program to run like a daemon. it should do: look in a directory for some flag-files, if some exist the daemon should start other programs, then the daemon should sleep for let´s say 5 seconds and begin again... how must I create such a daemon and how can I stop him working with

Re: creating a daemon

2001-09-03 Thread register
i did not understand the part about working with samll scripts but you could do somehting like this ... not tested #!perl while(1) { if ( -s $flag_file_location ) { system($command_to_execute) or warn Cannot execute command\n;

Re: creating a daemon

2001-09-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi all, I seem to remember a long time ago, a small guide to creating a daemon, wich included such topics as detaching stdin/out/err from the starting tty, chdiring to root so as not to prevent unmounting /home etc. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Gary On Monday 03 September 2001 2:46 pm

Re: creating a daemon

2001-09-03 Thread victor
There is a big section in the Perl Cookbook( O'Reilly) that show you step by step detail of how to create a daemon. peter grotz wrote: hi all, I need a program to run like a daemon. it should do: look in a directory for some flag-files, if some exist the daemon should start other