in reply to Breaking out of interactive program

Unix:
perl script.pl &
Windows:
start perl script.pl

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Re^2: Breaking out of interactive program
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2010 at 23:51 UTC
Re^2: Breaking out of interactive program
by rycher (Acolyte) on Jan 24, 2010 at 01:12 UTC
    Yea...I thought I could do something simple like that. But it backgrounds the entire program so that the interactive portion (asking for username/pwd) is lost to the user.

      Sorry, I was guessing at what you wanted since I had hard time understanding your question. Based on this new information, I'm sure you'll find Daemon::Daemonize most useful.