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From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
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> setproctitle(3) - but I don't know how you would call it from perl.

You can do it by altering the $0 variable:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$0=3D'Will it work?';

sleep (10);

A ps | grep 'Will' gives me:

 2551  p3  SN     0:00.02 Will it work? (perl)
=20
Regards,
 Simon

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