On Mar 19, 21:34, Ted Hilts wrote: > Subject: Perl Problem > I have a ftp upload routine written in perl that I run from with a LAN > and out onto the internet via a gateway/firewall machine and the perl > routine occasionally hangs or develops a socket problem. Most of the > time it works fine but there are times it doesn't and I want to be able > to work around the problem. You can fork a child process to handle the FTP work and exits when it's done. Have the parent process sleep for a while, and if the child process has not terminated after the sleep, you can kill it. Regards, Clarence _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
