Hi everybody, I have been struggling with this for 2 days and finally I decided to ask for your help. I created a daemon using perl. When I run the perl script the daemon is created and work perfectly. The source code of the daemon is below: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use POSIX qw(setsid);
chdir '/' or die "cannot change to /:$!";

open STDIN,'/dev/null' or die "cannot read stdin:$!";
#open STDOUT ,'>>/dev/null' or die "cannot write to stdout:$!";
open STDERR ,'>>/dev/null' or die "cannot write to stderr:$!";
defined(my $pid=fork) or die "cannot fork process:$!";
exit if $pid;
setsid;
umask 0;
while(1)
{
    #system("perl Test.pl") or die "Can't exec: $!\n";
    ($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOf
+Week, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = localtime();
    if ($hour < 19)
    {
        $waitSeconds = (19-$hour) * 3600 - 60 * $minute - $second;
    }

    $date = `date`;
    print "The date is $date \n";

    print "The number of seconds $waitSeconds\n";

    sleep($waitSeconds);
    &loadData;
}

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I have a Fedora 5 system installed on my computer and I want this daemon to be created at boot time. I read different posts on internet on how to do that and I understand that you have to put a script in etc/init.d which I did : 
#!/bin/sh
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        # Start daemons.
        echo -n "Start load data daemon"
        perl home/magda/WorkArea/MyPerlScripts/DaemonScripts/TestDaemo
+n.pl
        ;;
  stop)
        # Stop daemons.
        ;;
  restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
esac

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But still when I restart the server and then check the process list wit ps axj my daemon is not there. I will greatly appreciate your help.

In reply to How do I start a perl daemon at boot time by Anonymous Monk

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