Reloading

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Re: Reloading by ehdonhon (Curate) on Jun 28, 2002 at 13:48 UTC
Yes, but this really isn't a Perl question. You need to go learn how to use crontab.	[reply]
Re: Reloading by sschneid (Deacon) on Jun 28, 2002 at 13:50 UTC
If you're on a NIX box, take a look at cron (`man cron`)... `NAME cron - clock daemon SYNOPSIS /usr/sbin/cron DESCRIPTION The cron command starts a process that executes commands at specified dates and times. Regularly scheduled commands can be specified according to instructions found in crontab files in the directory /var/spool/cron/crontabs. Users can submit their own crontab file using the crontab(1) command. Commands which are to be executed only once may be submitted using the at(1) command.` [download] I'm sure there is a similar function under Win32, but unfortunately I have no idea what it would be. Something I've found useful for reloading scripts while they're still running (it leaves zombie processes, but it works for a quick hack. If anyone can suggest something better, I'd be interested in knowing!) `if ($cmd eq 'reload') { my $child = fork (); if ($child) { print "Reloading...\n"; exec ('perl script.pl'); exit 1; } else { exit 1; } }` [download] And if you're interested in reloading libraries, you may want to take a look at this node. Hope it helps somewhat. scott. Edited*: added line about reloading libraries.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Reloading by moxliukas (Curate) on Jun 28, 2002 at 13:47 UTC
well, something like this could help: `sub foo { print "bar\n"; } while(1) { foo(); sleep(30); }` [download] This will execute function foo every 30 seconds. I am aware that you might be looking for something else, but hope this helps too.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Reloading by Anonymous Monk on Jun 28, 2002 at 13:49 UTC
hmmm how would I make a password generator so the password would change every 30 minutes.	[reply]