Dear monks, I am developing my first program in Perl (object oriented), and I need the help of an experienced Perl monk. My program is aimed at configuring several Cisco switches, to which the system is connected through Telnet sessions. During the execution of the program, I have to call regularly (every 30 seconds for instance) a method (saving the running configuration file) for each switch if no command is called, otherwise the Telnet connections to the switches are closed due to inactivity. I thought of a timer structure for each switch, which would be refreshed every time a method (or command) is called for the switch. Despite my web searches on threads and forks, I have really no idea on how to create this timer structure. Could anyone give me a hand? Thanks in advance! Iceman

In reply to Structure (timer) calling a method regularly in case of inactivity by Iceman1884

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