Ok, so I think I kinda got the hang of fork() (be gentle, today was my first time ever trying it (: ) but what's say I have a program that I want the maintainer to have the choice to daemonize or not. What's say, more, that if the script daemonizes all output should go to a file log vs STDOUT. Otherwise, all output goes to STDOUT (or STDERR of course which means that STDERR needs to go to a logfile too if we daemonize). How would I do this?

My current forking code... 

## Should this program daemonize...
## ie: should it run all the time
## in the background?
my $daemonize = 1;


##################################################
# fork code

if ( $daemonize ) {
    my $pid = fork();
    die("fork() failed: $!") unless defined $pid;

## need to do something right here
## to get STDOUT and STDERR to go
## to a file vs the console/screen.

    if ($pid) {
        exit(0);
    }
}

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- Jim

In reply to Messin around with fork() and fd's by snafu

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