Starting a perl program when I connect to the internet.

[Jonas Nilsson]

I'm trying to automatically start a perl-program everytime I connect to the
internet using a dialup-connection for my modem. Is there a simple way of
achieving this?

I run WinXP.

/jN

[Brian McCauley]

Jonas Nilsson wrote:

> I'm trying to automatically start a perl-program everytime I connect to the
> internet using a dialup-connection for my modem. Is there a simple way of
> achieving this?

Probably. I would expect most OSs to possess such hooks. On some OSs I
could even tell you where they are. This, of course, has nothing to do
with Perl and less to do with Perl modules - the answer would be the
same whatever language your scripts were written in.

> I run WinXP.

Perhaps you should try a newsgroup where questions about WinXP are on-topic.

[Jim Keenan]

"Jonas Nilsson" <dzluk8fsxsw0001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:<cirrbo$qlr$1@news.island.liu.se>...

> I'm trying to automatically start a perl-program everytime I connect to the
> internet using a dialup-connection for my modem. Is there a simple way of
> achieving this?
>
> I run WinXP.
>

Why not use a perl script to establish the Internet connection itself,
then have it call what you want?

Jim Keenan

[Jonas Nilsson]

"Brian McCauley" <nobull@mail.com> wrote in message
news:cishu6$h07$1@slavica.ukpost.com...

> Jonas Nilsson wrote:

> > I'm trying to automatically start a perl-program everytime I connect to

the

> > internet using a dialup-connection for my modem. Is there a simple way

of

> > achieving this?

>
> Probably. I would expect most OSs to possess such hooks. On some OSs I
> could even tell you where they are. This, of course, has nothing to do
> with Perl and less to do with Perl modules - the answer would be the
> same whatever language your scripts were written in.
>

This is perhaps correct. However I don't know too much about it, but isn't
this type of functionality connected to services. And can't you create a
service using a perl module?
/jN