As a first step: daemonize your script and reboot the machine.

Always test under real-life conditions...

Concerning your question:
I don't know if any signal must be send in this case, googling didn't help and I'm to tired right now to dig further, sorry :(

FWIW: I experimented a little with this code

sub handler {
    my $sig = shift;
    `echo $sig >> ~/scratch/testsig`;
    exit if grep /$sig/, qw/INT TERM KILL CHLD ABRT HUP QUIT/;
}

$SIG{$_} = \&handler foreach keys %SIG;

while(1){}
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maybe that gets you started...but be carefull to have a console open to kill this from, just in case...

kind regards,
tomte

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