#!/usr/bin/perl 
# daemonize the program 

print "Parent pid: $$\n";    # I added this
&daemonize; 

$| = 1; 
while(1) { 
    print "\nIn the While\n"; 
    open(MYFILE,'>>temp.txt'); 
    print MYFILE "Hello Sri\n"; 
    close(MYFILE); 
} 

sub daemonize { 
    chdir '/' or die "Can't chdir to /: $!"; 
    open STDIN, '/dev/null' or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!"; 
    open STDOUT, '>>/dev/null' or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!"; 
    open STDERR, '>>/dev/null' or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!"; 
    defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Can't fork: $!"; 
    exit if $pid; 
    
    setsid or die "Can't start a new session: $!"; 
    umask 0; 
} 

##</code><code>##

/home/user1> ./gashd.pl
Parent pid: 7300
/home/user1> ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 7190 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
 7301 pts/2    00:00:02 gashd.pl
 7315 pts/2    00:00:00 ps

##</code><code>##

use warnings;
use strict;

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl 
# daemonize the program 
use warnings;
use strict;
use POSIX ('setsid');
use Sys::Syslog qw(:standard);

print "Parent pid: $$\n";    # I added this
&daemonize;

$| = 1;
while(1) {
    print "\nIn the While\n";
    if (!open(MYFILE,'>>temp.txt')) {
        my $err = $!;   # In case Sys::Syslog resets it
        # Log pid with messages, set our facility to be LOCAL0
        openlog($0, 'pid', 'LOG_LOCAL0');

        syslog('LOG_ERR', "Unable to open temp.txt: $err");
        closelog();
    }
    print MYFILE "Hello Sri\n";
    close(MYFILE);
}

sub daemonize {
    chdir '/' or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
    open STDIN, '/dev/null' or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!";
    open STDOUT, '>>/dev/null' or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!";
    open STDERR, '>>/dev/null' or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!";
    defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Can't fork: $!";
    exit if $pid;

    #setsid() or die "Can't start a new session: $!"; 
    POSIX::setsid();
    umask 0;
}

##</code><code>##

Feb 11 11:08:44 yogi ./gashd.pl[10467]: Unable to open temp.txt: Permission denied