Basicaly, you need a variable wait - one that will return once the server is ready to process requests.

Does the server open it's socket at the end of initialization (i.e. when it's ready to process requests?) If so, you could write a very simple script that just tries to open the socket.

If it gets "connection refused" it waits a second, if not, it exits - since the server is now ready to talk to your real client.

If it opens the socket much before it's ready to talk, does it give any other indication when it's ready? If not, perhaps you could write a very simple client (just enough to open a connection, perform the simplest operation and close the connection) - and start the real client once the simple one succeeds.

In reply to Re: Backgrounding (daemonizing?) a Net::server by matija
in thread Backgrounding (daemonizing?) a Net::server by PetaMem

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