Be interseting to see what "perls" of wisdom the gurus comeup with but
in the meantime can you just launch it into the backgound and redirect
the output to a file?
something likethis maybe
# nohup perlprogram > proglog &
Bret
Alan Mead wrote:
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> I have a script that needs to run all the time
I have a script that needs to run all the time to glue two processes
together. I wrote it in Perl and it works but I have to start it up
manually and it writes to the screen. I want to convert it to run in the
background like a deamon, creating a PID file (I guess?), catching SIG's,
writing to a
