Re: [MacPerl] Unix daemons in Perl on MacOS?

["Axel M. Roest" <axel@simplex.nl>]

At 08:55 +0100 26-01-2000, Brian McNett wrote:
>Jonathan Eisenzopf ends his regular "Mother of Perl" column:
>
>So...  To tackle this, the closest I can come conceptually is a "faceless
>background app".

That's a good idea if you want to be completely self sustained. If 
you want to have help from other programs, you can use one of many 
Cron Managers for MacOS. One is even included on the MacOS 8.6 CD. My 
favorites:

CronMgr by Mark Malson (oldie but goodie, works with same syntax as 
cron on unix. New version apparently coming soon. 
http://www.xuser.com/~markm/
iDo Script Scheduler, included with MacOS nowadays
http://www.sophisticated.com/

Both items allow you to start up other applications while being 
clean, (small) faceless background apps.


Axel

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