forking is cool =)
and the sub just made things a little clearer.... well that was the plan
*cough*
Dean
Matt wrote:
>
> Cool, I was thinking about doing this Dean .. how about
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> while() {
> sleep(60);
> `theprogram`;
> }
>
> Is there any reason why fork is better ? Why the sub ? You must come from some
> kind of structured language environment :)
>
> Regards, Matt
>
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> >
> > fork(&myprog) && die;
> >
> > sub myprog {
> >
> > while (1 = 1) {
> >
> > ...
> > ....
> > ....
> >
> > sleep(60);
> >
> > };
> >
> > };
> >
> >
> > something like that
> >
> > Dean
> >
> >
> > Matt wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Sluggers ..
> > >
> > > What would be the best way to run a perl script (or shell script) every 60
> > > seconds all the time, since boot time ?
> > >
> > > Has Cron always been strict with the hourly, weekly, daily etc ? There isn't a
> > > away of getting a "minutely" is there ? :)
> > >
> > > Regards, Matt
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