Re: Starting a process in the background that lives after perl dies.

Perhaps you want to nohup your command in the background??

And have you looked at "Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent" in perlipc?

Updated link - fixed bad cut n paste job :-)

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Re: Re: Starting a process in the background that lives after perl dies. by nufsaid (Beadle) on Nov 09, 2001 at 03:24 UTC
To provide a bit more detail: system("nohup xterm&"); should "run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty" Joe.	[reply]