Okay, here's a code excerpt. I see message "log init a", I do not see message "log init b".

# Daemonizing closes all fds, so must be before log init.
# (Which means it's hell to tell why it later aborts.)
if ($daemonize) {
    Proc::Daemon::Init();
}

open (my $xxx, ">/nfshome/ddb/p/kcmdproxy/elog.log") or die "Open fail
+ed: $!";
print $xxx "opened log file\n";

# Higher-level non-error logging level
Log::Log4perl::Logger::create_custom_level('NOTIFY', 'ERROR');
print $xxx "log init a\n";
Log::Log4perl->init_and_watch($logconfig, 'HUP');
print $xxx "log init b\n";
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When not daemonizing, it gets through all this and more (the old code works in non-daemon mode). When I daemonize, it dies when I do the log config. And I know why; the default $logconfig is a relative path, and daemonizing sets current directory to /.

As you may gather, I figured that out as I was writing the description.

Thanks!