WinXP running script in the background

ahmad has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

i'm trying to make a script that run in the background

how it could be accomplished ?

code sample

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# Delay in minutes (minutes * 60)
my $INTERVAL = 30 * 60;

open(STDERR,">logs.txt");
print STDERR "LOG started at : " . localtime(time) . "\n";
select STDERR;

while (1) {
    sleep($INTERVAL);
    &check_logs;
}


sub check_logs {
    # some logs checking goes here then print out the output
    print STDERR "Logs Processed found : ???? at ????\n";

}
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Re: WinXP running script in the background by zentara (Cardinal) on May 10, 2006 at 16:04 UTC
Check out the XP responses in Running a process in the background I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^2: WinXP running script in the background by ahmad (Hermit) on May 10, 2006 at 19:03 UTC
Thanks , I tryed those ways but i dont know why my script dies when i close the "CMD" window What i want is to be able to close the (MS DOS) window after executing the script and keep the script working in the background Code examples will help much	[reply]
Re^3: WinXP running script in the background by Trix606 (Monk) on May 10, 2006 at 19:30 UTC
Well it sounds like you want your script to act like a service (in Windows terminology) or Daemon (*nix terminology). In that case, check out Win32::Daemon. Good luck, Trix	[reply]
Re^3: WinXP running script in the background by bart (Canon) on May 10, 2006 at 20:54 UTC
You could also have the program relaunch itself without console window, using Win32::Process. See They didn't give me a fork so I have to eat with a spawn. for code that could serve as a working example.	[reply]
Re^3: WinXP running script in the background by nimdokk (Vicar) on May 10, 2006 at 19:12 UTC
You might want to look at Scheduled Tasks and `wperl`	[reply] [d/l]