On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:58 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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/> Matthew, Thanks much for the links. Don't like reinventing the wheel either so I appreciate your good advice. Thanks again, Greg
