Re^4: Creating a perl daemon

in reply to Re^3: Creating a perl daemon
in thread Creating a perl daemon

This always works for me.

daemonize();


sub daemonize {
    chdir '/'                 or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
    open STDIN, '/dev/null'   or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!";
    open STDOUT, '>/dev/null' or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!";
    defined(my $pid = fork)   or die "Can't fork: $!";
    exit if $pid;
    setsid                    or die "Can't start a new session: $!";
    open STDERR, '>&STDOUT'   or die "Can't dup stdout: $!";
}
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I found it by googling.

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