> > Is anyone else using independent perl processes in a web app, or have strong > reasons not to?
Our web application (Metadot) provides a number of functions that are fulfilled by a daemon written in perl. Among these are: collecting content from syndicated news channels, sending email messages to users about newly added content, retrieving email messages to add to site content, monitoring and cleaning database tables, etc. We run this daemon as a cron job every twenty minutes, and within it we have sections for tasks that are performed at hourly, daily and weekly intervals. The script is a bit messy but could still serve as a skeleton for similar ones for other applications. It's called metadotd.pl and is part of our open source distribution available from Metadot.net. Regards, Claudio
