Thanks for your reply. I guess I should be clear, when I'm running "child" processes I'm using system or backticks, not actually opening child processes. I guess I could do what you mention, although really these commands need to run in sequence, not parallel, so I'm not sure forking a child of the daemon manually like that is necessary.

Also, about Proc::Daemon redirecting STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null, is there a way to re-redirect them? When I don't run in "daemon" mode (I comment out Proc::Daemon::Init()), I can do this: 
open STDERR, '>', "$run_path/stderr.txt" or die "Can't redirect STDERR: $!";
And the STDERR output from each command subsequently run using backticks `/some/command` gets written to the stderr.txt log file. But if I run in Daemon mode (uncomment the Proc::Daemon::Init() call), the STDERR & STDOUT info is getting lost. Even though I'm opening them as above. I wonder if I need to close them first. (update closing them first makes no difference, it's as if once Proc::Daemon gets ahold of them I can't redirect them elsewhere)

In reply to Re^2: Daemon, log4perl & stderr/stdout by saberworks
in thread Daemon, log4perl & stderr/stdout by saberworks

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