Hello,
I allready used supersearch to search on daemons and daemonize. I found the Proc::Daemon module. But I have no clue how to use it :)

Let me sketch my problem:

I have simple perl-script that queries a database, makes XML and sends it with LWP to another server who sends back the XML answer in the content. That same script parses this and puts that data back in the database.I want this script to run in the background. Like it run ones every 3 seconds, but if it still runs after 3 secons it should wait until it's session is finished and then start another one. So it should only run one instance at a time.



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In reply to Daemons??? by toadi

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