On Wed, 12 May 2004 rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > I think the script should fork a process to run <program>, redirect > its output (perhaps to a logfile) and error output (perhaps using > syslog), and then terminate. Is that the right thing to do? > > Thanks, > R > What kind of script? I found a useful link for Perl daemons here: http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/9/ Its advice is probably general enough to adapt to other scripting languages if need be. -- Michael Vieths Foeclan at Visi.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list