This is not strictly related but the answer may help others so I'll ask here:
 
Net:Server::Daemonize writes a .pid file with the process number. Very useful becasue one can read that and then do a kill -2 (that process #) to stop the daemon (the .pid file is deleted as well).
 
BUT ... I am having permissions problems with reading and writing the .pid file when I execute through apache. I'm running apache on ubuntu. The daemos runs from /usr/lib/cgi-bin. The apache user is www-data. I created a subdirectory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/pids and did a sudo chown www-data:www-data pids plus sudo chmod 777 pids.
 
The daemon dies at startup (even from the command line). May I request help? Where should I be writting the pids to?

In reply to Re: apache2 and system ... cotinued from 2004 by holandes777
in thread apache2 and system ... cotinued from 2004 by holandes777

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