[CentOS] Creating a user defined service in Cent os

Mon May 24 14:11:42 UTC 2010
Brian Mathis <brian.mathis at gmail.com>

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chaitanya Yanamadala
<dr.virus.india at gmail.com> wrote:
> hai
>  i have a perl script which will automatically check for the existing files
> and then ftp them to a server, this one runs in a loop until i kill it, now
> what i wants is i want to make this as a service so that it can keep on
> running until i kill the service. so does any one have an idea how to do
> this??
>
> Chaitanya


You can write a start/stop script and put in in /etc/init.d, or you
can convert it to run from cron and put it in the user's crontab
(instead of using an infinite loop and sleeping in the script, remove
the loop & sleep and have cron run the script however often you need
to check for files).  Cron would be the preferred way here.