in reply to Re: Background Process
in thread Background Process

You need to have the kid close STDOUT as well. I say this many times in my Web Techniques columns.

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RE: RE: Re: Background Process
by ncw (Friar) on Jun 27, 2000 at 00:19 UTC
    Or if you are feeling lazy you can do all the above forking, closing, reopening etc with :- 
    use Proc::Daemon;

#...

Proc::Daemon::Init();

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      Could you provide a sample script? Thanks, David
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