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Date:      Thu, 13 May 2004 17:09:01 -0600
From:      Dan Harris <fbsd@drivefaster.net>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: perl   pause or wait
Message-ID:  <40A4000D.6070302@drivefaster.net>
In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEBBFOAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEBBFOAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>

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JJB wrote:

>I have perl script that issues the newsyslog command followed by 3
>perl scripts that process the new .0 rotated file.
>
>Problem is the newsyslog rotate has not completed creating the new
>.0 and rolling through the other .x files before the first perl
>script in trying to open the .0 file for processing.
>
>Is there in perl pause or wait command I can use to  allow some time
>to elapse before continuing with the launch of the next script?
>
>
>  
>

Yes, use the sleep() function.

perldoc -f sleep for more information.

-Dan



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