when you add Perl scripts to crontab those files. Because when crontab running it WILL NOT check the existence of the particular Perl (or whatever) process so your process will be replicated and ...

AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl scripts and Shell scripts just as easily! Any shell-based scripting language will work.

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach.

Copy the script to res/raw/runperl.pl in the checkout. Update the res/raw/perl_libs.zip archive with any modules your application requires or own modules you have written.