On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:10:21PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I would like to create a daemon server that could be used like sendmail, > dovecot etc. I would like it to monitor a specified port for queries > from a local network, and pass the queries to a database that is not > mysql or postgresql, and return the results to the same port, > I do not have experience in C so I would prefer to use perl. > Can anyone point me to a tutorial? Sure. Here's the basics: <http://www.perlfect.com/articles/sockets.shtml> <http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Perl/Socket-Programming-in-PERL/> You'll want to understand that. *But*, rather than reinventing the wheel in your own program, you might want to use the Net::Server module, available in Fedora in the perl-Net-Server rpm. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
