I had searched with the Super Search and quite frankly I realy had no idea as to what keywords to use for this type of problem. So forgive me if this has been answered dozens of times.

I'm writing a server type program that backgrounds itself. So it will be running continuously until its killed. What I need to do is to be able to schedule a process within the server to run once every half hour or so and telling it to sleep is not an option since it needs to listen for connections. I came up with this code but as I see it its completely unacceptable since it would run over and over again for a minute. A valiant attempt, however I fell in the moat halfway over.

This attempt uses Date::Calc's Today_and_Now 
sub is_it_time {
    my ($year,$month,$day, $hour,$min,$sec) = Today_and_Now();
    if ($min == 29) {
        return 1;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}

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Any ideas as to how to mimic cronlike scheduling within a perl program for running subroutines without blocking other processes?

I am at your mercy,
Brother BMaximus

In reply to Scheduling internal functions/processes to run within a program (like cron does programs) by BMaximus

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