Here's what I use for daemonizing... 

use POSIX qw(setsid);

sub daemonize {
    die "Can't fork" unless defined (my $child = fork());
    exit 0 if $child;
    setsid();
    open(STDIN, "</dev/null");
    open(STDOUT, ">/dev/null");
    open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT");
    chdir '/';
    umask(0);
    $ENV{PATH} = '/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin';
    return $$;
}

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It looks mostly like what you have... What about putting some logging statements in places to figure out where exactly the script is going haywire? Maybe your socket is getting fouled up, so accept returns undef right away, and $time_to_die is false, and so you're in an insanely tight loop that isn't doing any IO, but rather just spinning on the CPU. How about that as an idea? Try putting a print statement right after your "until", and another one right after your "while" to figure out what kind a control path you're experiencing.

In reply to Re: Daemonization of IO::Socket Script by skyknight
in thread Daemonization of IO::Socket Script by landonc

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