#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use Proc::Daemon; use strict; my $root = "/temp"; my $time_to_die = 0; sub signal_handler { $time_to_die = 1; } sub phoenix { my $me = "$root/minidaemon.pl"; logMessage("I'm about to refork by running '$me'!"); my $ret = system($me); if ($ret) { logMessage("Should have run system($me), but which returned $ret: $?, carrying on"); } else { exit(0); } } sub logMessage { my $message = shift; local $| = 1; open(FILE_HANDLE, ">>$root/daemon.out") or die("log file open failed: $!"); print FILE_HANDLE "$$ : $message\n" ; close(FILE_HANDLE); } Proc::Daemon::Init; $SIG{INT} = $SIG{TERM} = \&signal_handler; $SIG{HUP} = \&phoenix; while (!$time_to_die) { sleep(1); logMessage("hello"); } logMessage("died");