[oclug]Perl Qs

[Jon Earle]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Joe Burpee wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:27:16AM -0500, Jon Earle wrote:
> > 1.  I have a script run by my webserver (not under mod_perl) that needs to
> > restart networking and the webserver.  If I shutdown the server though,
> > the script is terminated.  I've thought about scheduling a cron job, but
> > then I'd just have to delete it somehow, and this should be fairly idiot
> > proof.
>
> Not sure why you have to delete it.  The cron job could just check
> whether the server is running.  E.g. on RedHat

Well, it will only run once in a while (ie: when the network configuration
changes, which is usually not often).

I found though, that 'kill -HUP <pid of apache process>' does what I need.
The perl cgi script runs, and apart from the browser waiting for some
terminating character (I send a warning to the user, and the last chars
sent are "...</html>\n") from the server's previous configuration, it's
working as expected.

So, that begs the next question... what is sent by the server to a client
after '</html>' to tell the browser to stop expecting more data?

>   $oldip = quotemeta "CGI=HASH(0x86e5a60)->param('ip')";

Ah, that should do it.  Thanks Joe!

Cheers!
Jon

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