I haven't used Daemon::Control before, but it does indeed sound like do_status should be the right way to do it. The module does have quite a few open bugs - could this one be related to your issue? https://github.com/symkat/Daemon-Control/pull/68

... presumably because the executable is different.

Not sure what you mean by this? Are you not using the PID file? It also sounds like the scan_name option might be relevant?