in reply to sleeping for a minute

And here's a non-perl suggestion:

If your script runs on a linux or unix-like system, you can create a cronjob, which runs your script every minute.

In Windows you could set up a scheduled task to do so.

I'd prefer running the script every minute (by cron or scheduled task) than having it run continuously and sending it regularly to sleep for a minute.

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Re^2: sleeping for a minute
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 18, 2010 at 23:47 UTC

    Loading perl every 60 seconds seems like a lot of overhead.

    A periodic (but less frequent) watchdog might be the way to go if you wanted extra reliability.

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      I see bot403's point, but I think more along these lines, too. I'd rather just idle for a bit instead of have to start from scratch each time.
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Re^2: sleeping for a minute
by aaron.m (Novice) on Feb 18, 2010 at 21:19 UTC
    Why would you prefer that? Just curious...
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      1. In case it dies.
      2. In case it has a memory leak.
      3. In case someone kills it purposely or accidentally
      4. So you dont have to install it to run when the system starts up.
      5. Because making a true daemon or windows service that *behaves well* is a minor PITA
      6. To have more fine grained control on when and how often it runs (day of week, day of month, hours, etc)

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      bot403 listed the reasons I was thinking of (even a few more).

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