Do you really need PID files?

Unix (including Linux) can do fine without PID files and their problems, and without any special deamonizing code in your program. This way also gets rid of fragile init scripts and silly tools like start-stop-daemon that don't even attempt to handle a crashing service. Plus, you get reliable logging including rotating logs for free.

See Re: How to get the process Id, Re: current best practices for Perl-daemons on Linux, Re: A few questions regarding Proc::Daemon, Re: Log File Rotation, Re: RFC: an(other) UNIX daemon module implementation, Re: Problems with forking, Re^3: Proc::PID::File problem generating pid files, or: does it matter where a pid file lives?, daemontools, the djb way, SuperSearch.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

In reply to Re: Daemon::Control pid-files by afoken
in thread Daemon::Control pid-files by morgon

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