Subj : background scripts
To   : James Vahn
From : Jame Clay
Date : Sun Mar 31 2002 12:54 am

James,

> How do you fork a child process from within Perl? I think that's
> the proper terminolgy

    To "fork" a program is to start another copy of itself...


>- I want to run a script that exits but
> remains running in memory.

   Well, if it exits it won't "remain running";  something running in the
background is no different from any other program in that respect...



> For some reason the init scripts don't like "&",

   If you're referring to the startup "init" scripts;  that's likely because
they're already being put into the background by the program that's running 
them...   


> I'm currently running this via startup script and atd:

   If you want that to keep running, you could just add a while loop to the
script...

   And btw, I'm curious about what you're doing in the script;  for instance,
as far as I know, the "seek" command is byte oriented & not line oriented... 
And I think you have last two parameters to it reversed...





Jame


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