The fork would probably be better as it safeguards (mildly) against memory
leaks by starting a new process each time. That's all I could think.
John Wiltshire
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 7 July 2000 2:12 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Running every 60 seconds
>
>
> 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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