Hi Monks! I'm about to write script to be used as a daemon. It's purpose is to check for a file every second and process it, if present. I use Daemon::Simple from CPAN to daemonize my script. Now my Problem is, when I use sleep() in my main loop no outputs at all are made (I write a logfile) - if I remove the sleep() statement, of course, the logfile is filled very rapidly. I just don't get it... what is the problem? Here's the code 
use Daemon::Simple;
$prog_name = 'some_prog';

## Initialize Daemon ##
my $homedir = '/';
my $pidfile = "/var/run/$prog_name.pid";
my $command = $ARGV[0];
Daemon::Simple::init($command,$homedir,$pidfile);

## Daemon script ##
  open LOG, ">>$log_file";   # $log_file contains an absolute path
  print LOG "$prog_name started.";


  ## Daemon Loop ##
  while (1) {
    print LOG "before sleep...";
    sleep(1);
    print LOG "after sleep...";
  }


  close LOG;
__END__

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Could anyone help out?

In reply to Daemon problem with sleep() by MichaelMeyer

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