I need advice and a weigh in from the wise ones. I'm using perl Win32::ChangeNotify to create persistant perl service which should always start up when the server starts up. I've created special directories where specifically formatted files can be deposited, upon which my perl script will extract and transform the files for delivery to a warehouse staging database. How do I keep the perl scripts running 24/7 waiting for the files to be dropped off? I've tried using active states dev kit to convert the scripts to .exe programs and scheduling them as windows tasks and this has worked but it was very picky I'm not sure how I did it. Not working now. This is on a remote server and I Terminal in, start the task, the window opens and runs. When I log out, the program is closed. I want it to stay on. Maybe I'm doing this all wrong? I just want to be able to create perl scripts which are always running.... even when I log off. What is the best way?

In reply to Suppressing Windows CMD Window by jarthda

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