Re: [Omaha.pm] Perl Daemon

[Dan Linder <dan@linder.org>]

It might depend on your projects needs.  We have two daemon-like processes.  One listens on a TCP/IP port 24x7, but just in case it dies we have it setup in a cronjob to try and execute once a minute.  It's not elegant, but it works for us.

The second process isn't a daemon per-se.  We just run it from cron at 10 minute intervals and it processes anything that it finds in it's directory.  Since the processing time can take quite a while, we put a flag file in the directory when we start, and delete it when we're done.

I think the first one is the daemon-like example you're looking for.  Check out your distributions init.d scripts and start there.

Dan

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 14:07, Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net> wrote:

On 6/11/2010 1:03 PM, Todd Hamilton wrote:

What module or approach do you guys use to Daemonize a perl application?

We've got a bunch of home-spun .sh reminiscent of /etc/init.d/apache2 and friends. I'm sure there's prettier ways, but I've never used one. If you find one you like tell us about it.   :)

j

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