Don't worry - this isn't some sort of spam for an elixir of youth! Is there any sort of timeout on Perl scripts? Will they just run until they return or are killed?
Sorry if this seems a daft question, but the language I am used to (Lasso - web application middleware) will kill any thread that runs for more than x amount of time, unless it's told not to. Also, how about DBI connections - any timeout there? Basically I want to leave a Perl script supervising a non-trivial import process into a MySQL db. (There are many GB of data to go in, which needs to be put into a intermediary table then have joins done to split it into related tables with all the correct foreign keys etc.) TIA, James Harvard
