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Hi Everyone, My first post to the list. And I really am new to Perl. I need to write a script which is always on, and keeps checking a table in MySQL for new records. When it finds one, it has to do certain processing on it. The script should be able to process multiple records simultaneously (and independently) if it finds several new records at the same time. I was thinking of doing this by writing a script which would run as a daemon (to keep checking the table for new records) and in the while loop of this daemon, if the script finds a new record, I would call another script (for processing the record) using exec where I would pass the primary key of that record. My query: 1. Is this the proper way to do it? 2. When calling exec 'perl process_recs.pl $primarykey' are multiple instances of this script process_recs.pl created which would each process the record whose primarykey is given to it? 3. Where can I get an example of Proc::Daemon? Thanks a ton Vani _____________________________________________________________ Vani Murarka <vani@manaskriti.com> Manaskriti Software Solutions http://www.manaskriti.com Bangalore, India Ph: 91-80-5262275 - Web Development / List Hosting & Consultancy Services - _____________________________________________________________