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Date:      Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:14:39 +0200
From:      Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
To:        Rob <listone@deathbeforedecaf.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can I Set Process Name?
Message-ID:  <20030708151439.GD901@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
In-Reply-To: <000a01c34561$228ff5b0$a4b826cb@goo>
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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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