I have a daemon using Daemon::Control, and would like my app to test whether it's running, so it can gracefully fail over if not.

My current solution is to open a UNIX subshell and pipe using '-|' to "daemon.pl status", and test if the output says "Not Running" or "Running". Not very elegant, and inefficient.

I tried a Daemon::Control->new(...)->do_status with the same parameters as the daemon, but it says "Not Running" always, presumably because the executable is different.

I could check the pid file, look at /proc/<pid> and see if it looks like the daemon with a bunch of tests. But this seems like the sort of thing a daemon library should simply provide.

So is there a direct way using just Perl to test for this?

In reply to Test if Daemon::Control daemon is running. by gh

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