## Should this program daemonize...
## ie: should it run all the time
## in the background?
my $daemonize = 1;


##################################################
# fork code

if ( $daemonize ) {
    my $pid = fork();
    die("fork() failed: $!") unless defined $pid;

## need to do something right here
## to get STDOUT and STDERR to go
## to a file vs the console/screen.

    if ($pid) {
        exit(0);
    }
}