Daemon::Simple - Perl extension for making script as daemon with start|stop controlling on unix system

  use Daemon::Simple;

  Daemon::Simple::init($command);

  or

  Daemon::Simple::init($command,"~/");

  or

  my $homedir = `pwd`; chomp($homedir);
  my $pidfile = "/var/run/ffencoder.pid";
  my $command = $ARGV[0];
  Daemon::Simple::init($command,$homedir,$pidfile);

  ## Daemon script ##
  open(FILE,">out.txt");
  select(FILE);




  sleep(10);
  close(FILE);
  __END__

  # in shell
  $ perl foo.pl start
  $ perl foo.pl stop

This module is good for making a script as a daemon. A daemon script has start|stop controlling command. It is simple by adding Daemon::Simple::init() on first line of script.

This module is implemented by wrapping Proc::Daemon.

None by default.

Proc::Daemon

Proc::ProcessTable

HyeonSeung Kim, <sng2nara@hanmail.net>

Copyright (C) 2007 by sng2nara

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.