Hello, I'm trying to write a daemon which will restart itself when it receives SIGHUP. Whenever I send the signal, the daemon never seems to start a new one using the system call (I get a return code of 512 - what does that mean?). I'm using the following code: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Proc::Daemon;

use strict;

my $root = "/temp";
my $time_to_die = 0;

sub signal_handler
{
    $time_to_die = 1;
}

sub phoenix
{
    my $me = "$root/minidaemon.pl";
    logMessage("I'm about to refork by running '$me'!");
    my $ret = system($me);
    if ($ret)
    {
        logMessage("Should have run system($me), but which returned $r
+et: $?, carrying on");
    }
    else
    {
        exit(0);
    }
}

sub logMessage
{
    my $message = shift;
    local $| = 1;
    open(FILE_HANDLE, ">>$root/daemon.out") or die("log file open fail
+ed: $!");
    print FILE_HANDLE "$$ : $message\n" ;
    close(FILE_HANDLE);
    
}

Proc::Daemon::Init;
$SIG{INT} = $SIG{TERM} = \&signal_handler;
$SIG{HUP} = \&phoenix;
while (!$time_to_die)
{
    sleep(1);
    logMessage("hello");
}
logMessage("died");

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I know I am probably missing something very obvious, but this initiate hasn't got a scooby. Thanks in advance!

In reply to Restarting a daemon by yucca15

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