hai all thank you for your replies. but can you send me some examples so that i can understand the things more better.. i am quite new to linux.. so can u help me out. Chaitanya On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:29:21PM +0530, Chaitanya Yanamadala 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?? > > Has anyone syggested using rsync instead of a Perl script? > That is designed just for things like this and works well > and might be more secure than the Perl script. > > Or you could put use rsync in your Perl script. > > You will need to create a little binary to invoke the Perl script. > Then create an rd.d type script that takes a 'start' and 'stop' > put it in and run it with a 'start' parameter. Give the startup > script a 'stop' when you want to quite. > > Look at the stuff in init.d, etc such as apachectl for hints. > You probably don't need anything as elaborate as that for > the start/stop script, but it is a good example. > > ////jerry > > > > > > Chaitanya > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100524/9d51544e/attachment-0004.html>