I'm looking for some strightforward example of perl-based server. This would include - init-scripts, logfiles, syslog, possibly monitoring etc...

As I am mostly debian-based, debian source package in some 'goodbye-world' fassion would be best.

There exist Net::Server:: family of modules, but they don't account for starting/stoping/monitoring, there's no logrotate integration, and theye're Net::Server-centered, and noone said server has to be net-based, deamons like cron don't use net.

This is basically Best-Practices question, all the pieces I can easily gather/create myself, but what do people recommend ( for example, it's dead simple to log to syslog, and let the system rotate it's logs, but I think i'd prefer to log to /var/log/daemon/something.log. But then I have to think about logfiles growing, rotating them.. I can do it myself, but is it the best solution?. Another example - /etc/init.d/daemon stop/start. How should one mark that the daemon is running? Pidfile? Should I create it myself, or let some tool like start-stop-daemon manage it?)

In reply to Perl-based server integration. Looking for example. by Eyck

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