Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Alexander Farber > <alexander.farber at gmail.com> wrote: >> My script has 2 pecularities: >> >> 1) When it gets SIGTERM or SIGINT, it writes some data into PostgreSQL >> and this takes 10-15 seconds >> >> 2) When it is started numerous times, then the subsequent runs >> will fail immediately, because only the 1st instance >> will be able to listen at the TCP-port 8080 <snip> Ok, here's an option: change it to perl, and make it a multithreaded process, so that it can wait at the critical point. fork do stuff that doesn't need the port if child, exit if parent if #0 ended, fork #2 else loop mark