In the spirit of TMOTOWTDI, you could, in your perl script have whatever you are trying to do be done within the context of a signal handler. For example,
#!/bin/perl

$SIG{INT} = \&my_sub;

sub my_sub
{
$SIG{INT} = \&my_sub;
#do stuff
}

while (1)
{
#waiting for my signal...
}

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Then, put an entry in the crontab to send your process a SIGINT every minute (kill -INT (your pid here)). You may even be able to put the entry in the crontab through the script (I would try to figure it out myself, but I'm a bit sleepy right now). So, now with the signal handler installed, your script will "do stuff" only when it catches a <code>SIGINT<code>, which you've aranged to be once a minute. You also get the benefit of having your process be persistent, so that the loading of it into memory isn't an issue if it ever was to begin with.

thor

In reply to Re: writing looped programs by thor
in thread writing looped programs by tachekent

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