You want "nohup" which stands for "no hangup". If you type "nohup
perl_prog &" your program will start in the background AND keep running
when you close the shell.
This does not solve the problem of restarting a stopped process however
(if, say, someone kill -9's your program, it won't auto-re-start).
Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> Any documents on how to run a program 24-7 .
>
> I wrote a small perl script that checks the mail and depending on the word
> in the subject line takes certain actions depeding on the subject.
>
> The script keeps looping and sleeping till there is new mail. the script
> has to be run as the user to work properly and has to be always running so
> that when a user sends mail to this, it will do its things and give the
> messages back to the user.
>
> The problems if I exist the session the program dies, and I really don't
> like have a xterm windows open 24-7 just for this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jack
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