"Justin Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently running a spider program derieved from an open source > Search Engine program call SWISH-E, the spider.pl file that I am using uses > the LWP::RobotUA class. Now, the way I have it set up is that I have a > program that would prep the spider program with a list of sites to spider, > the the program would call the spider using the backtick(``). From there > on, the spider becomes a zombie program, outputing results to a local > textfile for me to review later. The problem I'm running into is that it > seems like the LWP class has a timeout function implemented that would sleep > the process after a period of time with a message saying "Alarm clock." > What is happening is that, since my process is a zombie, when it is put to > sleep the system kills the process. Is there anyway around this situation? > Is there a command or flag in LWP::RobotUA that I can set so it would not be > put to sleep.
There is the 'use_sleep' attribute that you might set to a FALSE value. Regards, Gisle
