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in reply to Unix process number on a mac...

I don't know more about OSX than that it's a Unix system. Given that's a Unix system, the following ought to work: 
die "Not for (l)users!\n" if $>;
open my $fh, ">>", "/etc/inittab" or die "open: $!";
print $fh "xx:2345:respawn:/path/to/your/program arguments\n";
close $fh or die "close: $!";

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Re^2: Unix process number on a mac...
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2005 at 21:22 UTC
    Mac OS X is BSD Unix, not SysV. There is no /etc/inittab.
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