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daemonize a perl script on redhat linux 7.3
Am I missing something when i say run it using init.d ?
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Re: daemonize a perl script on redhat linux 7.3
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Re: Re: daemonize a perl script on redhat linux 7.3
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peschkaj
(Pilgrim)
on Jul 31, 2002 at 14:18 UTC
Running it from init.d won't daemonize it. It will just execute the program. You need to make sure the process will piddle about forever waiting for input/whatever. Hence disassociating it from the terminal and using setsid().
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