#!/usr/bin/perl -w -T # sinet.pl A simple inetd socket server. use strict; my $old_fh = select(STDOUT); $| = 1; select($old_fh); while( my $line = ) { $line =~ s/\r?\n$//; if ($line =~ /endit/) { die "shutting down\n"; } # do your processing here! print " $line\n"; }