[Chicago-talk] writing a log with Cron, Daemons, Perl

[Paul Baker]

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 10:41  PM, Jay Strauss wrote:

>> Having said that though, why are you trying to send something to
>> STDOUT? Daemon's aren't supposed to do that, that's why they close
>> them. And you are already writting your debugging to a log via STDERR,
>> so what do you need STDOUT for?
>
> I thought I'd print the startup messages to the screen and then 
> redirect the
> runtime messages to a file

Ah, well in that case, all your startup messages should occur before 
you daemonize. Meaning, any start up initialization stuff should occur 
before you go into the daemon (and any output should probably go to the 
REAL STDERR and not STDOUT). Then once you have done all your init, the 
last step before you start your process loop would be to then of course 
daemonize and then reopen STDERR to the logfile.


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