Sentinel

general purpose monitoring / task agent

based on Perl POE

uses Poe's Wheel architecture to run separate forked tasks, serialising 
child process status information back to parent process

Beta release

see bin/sentinel for a typical executable used to invoke sentinel

see bin/sentinel.cfg.EXAMPLE for general configuration 

see lib/Sentinel.pm for programmatic usage

AUTHOR
       Jon Brookes "<jon.brookes@ajbcontracts.co.uk>"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2010, Jon Brookes "<jon.brookes@ajbcontracts.co.uk>". All 
       rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

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