[Omaha.pm] Perl Daemon

[Dan Linder]

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 at 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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