#!/usr/bin/perl $| = 1; use strict; use IO::Socket::UNIX; my $SOCK_PATH = "/tmp/mysock"; unlink $SOCK_PATH; my $sock = IO::Socket::UNIX->new( Type => SOCK_DGRAM(), Local => $SOCK_PATH, Listen => 10, ) or die "error: $@"; my $data; while ($sock->recv($data, 1024)) { print "received: $data\n"; } print "exiting: $!\n";