At 6:53 AM -0500 4/12/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am an inexperienced Perl hacker with a problem.  I am writing a script that
>takes a long time to execute.  Each invocation may take 2+ minutes to
>process.
>While the script is processing  I do not want the user to have to wait.

Then tell the user to invoke the script this way:

   nohup your_script.pl &

The script will run in the background, and will keep running even
after the user logs out.

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Ron Newman      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www2.thecia.net/users/rnewman/


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