Re: Question about communicating with a running perl script

[mhearse]

My preferred method has been covered already in the previous replies. But there are many forms of Inter Process Communication that you may or may not know about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication

[mhearse]

Also, In addition to the other suggested solutions, classic UNIX dogma includes signals. You could add a signal handler to your code. That re-reads and applies the configuration info stored in db. The hangup signal is, by tradition, usually chosen for reloading configs.