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Recent content by MattGranger

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    Perl certificate validity check

    I want to check the expiry date of the SSL certificate - essentially, Perl script running on client machine - queries server to see when it's certificate is due for expiry, and then issues warning.
  2. MattGranger

    Perl certificate validity check

    Chaps, I'm trying to find out how to check the expiry date of a certificate on a server from a Perl script. If anyone's got any ideas about the best way of doing this I would be most grateful, Thanks Matt
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    EXEC delayed returning PID

    Mike, I'm on a Windows XP box. Matt
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    EXEC delayed returning PID

    Trojan, Thanks for the points - first post on the forum, so my apologies for not using Code Tags. I understand your code, and understand how that works. The problem that I have is that the if($pid = fork()) doesn't execute until it appears that control is returned from the child process...
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    EXEC delayed returning PID

    Hi, This is my first Perl project, and it's proved to be challenging. I'm trying to spawn off a number of child processes, record their PID's, and then later use that PID to kill the process off if it's been running past a given length of time. Easy eh? Use FORK eh? Wrote a test child, and...

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