How do I daemonize/make a daemon my perl script?Category: Perl
To make itself into a daemon, a perl script needs to close it's current connections to STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, chdir to a reliable space, fork itself, and setsid() itself. This needs to happen early on before any other file handles or network sockets are open. Historically you could do this manually:
use POSIX qw(setsid);
chdir '/';
umask 0;
open STDIN, '/dev/null';
open STDERR, '>/dev/null';
defined(my $pid = fork);
exit if $pid;
setsid;
... script continues.
Thankfully there is a module that automatically does this. Install "Proc::Daemon" via CPAN and all you need is one command:
use Proc::Daemon
Proc::Daemon::Init;
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