Depending what it is that your actually trying to achieve, it could be as simple as: 

P:\test>start /b perl -le"open LOG, '>', 'my.log'; 
select LOG; 
$|=1; 
print ~~localtime while sleep 10" 1>nul 2>&1 <nul

P:\test>u:tail -f my.log
Tue Sep 14 12:11:10 2004
Tue Sep 14 12:11:20 2004
^C

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The "one-liner" (here split across multiple lines to avoid wrapping) could be just about any perl script you like. It runs in the background, has it's STDIN, STOUT and STDERR redirected to the nul device and will continue to run until terminated through the task manager or other mechanism.

Proc::Daemon does a couple of other things--changing the umask (whatever that is) etc.-- but nothing that you cannot easily do yourself.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon

In reply to Re^5: Win32::Daemon service doesn't reach RUNNING state by BrowserUk
in thread Win32::Daemon service doesn't reach RUNNING state by zejames

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