Hi morgon,

Looking back at what I wrote, it sounds like I'm very much against Daemon::Control, but my opinion is not that extreme - I've used the module myself and of course if it works, why not :-) And it sounds like you can just create the PID file in /tmp and ignore it afterwards.

Just one more thought though: You mentioned in another reply that there are other init processes that depend on yours to set the time correctly. In that case, I'm not sure if forking into the background is good? Because I suspect init will only block until it's started the process, but not until it finishes, and if setting the time takes a few seconds, other processes may have been launched by init while the time hasn't been set yet. If that is indeed a problem then one solution might be to set Daemon::Control's fork option to zero.

Regards,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^5: Daemon::Control pid-files by haukex
in thread Daemon::Control pid-files by morgon

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