Hi guys, I'm fairly new to perl. I've been looking into creating daemons, but the thing is I want to be able to run multiple instances of this same daemon simultaneously, which seems to be the opposite of the goal every example I've come across. Practical Proc::Daemon example pretty clearly lays out how to create a daemon , but it's specifically coded to only have one running at a time, and I can't figure out how to change it without breaking it.

Ideally I'd like to be able to start a daemon:

perl daemon.pl [options]

perl daemon.pl [different options]

And then they'd perform their respective tasks independent of each other, and I'd just kill them according to their respective PIDs if need be.

Is there any way to perform this?

Thanks.

In reply to Running multiple instances of a daemon simultaneously? by Trenin

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