How to make these program run

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

Dear monks

I am confuse or even worst, but these is the problem, I have a script that every time I run it checks a folder on my computer and then if it has new information or a new file it is send to the server via FTP, the thing is that I need to be running it by hand is there a way to be able to keep it running on the background? someone here told me I should do it low level, what is that?

Thank you wise monks!

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Re: How to make these program run by igelkott (Priest) on Mar 28, 2008 at 16:37 UTC
May want to look into running a process as a Daemon or a Service, depending on the OS.	[reply]
Re: How to make these program run by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 28, 2008 at 16:54 UTC
Or, if you can stand to run this intermittently (every 10 seconds, every 20 minutes, or whatever) rather than as a background task (thereby saving cycles), check on `cron ($ man cron` on nix-ish OSen or `Schedule service (help\|Schedule` on Windows).	[reply]