I recently used Win32::Daemon to create a connection between a Linux client and an NT database. It might have been quicker to use DBI::Proxy, but I learned more this way. I had some problems with my script, which might have been detected had I used something like this BEGIN block.

I deliberately added a line 'use Blarfle;' to my working script. Blarfle.pm does not exist (well, maybe it does on CPAN... I haven't looked). When I start my service from the control panel (NT 4.0), I get to watch an hour glass until it displays "Error 2186: The service is not responding to the control function."

I added this BEGIN block after the 'use Blarfle;' statement: 

# *SNIP*
use Blarfle;

BEGIN {
    open(STDERR, ">>d:/daemon.err") or die "invisible error";
    warn "$0 started" . localtime() . "\n";
}

# *SNIP*
I didn't get any output in my d:\daemon.err file.

Next, I moved the 'use Blarfle;' so it was after the BEGIN block: 

# *SNIP*
BEGIN {
    open(STDERR, ">>d:/daemon.err") or die "invisible error";
    warn "$0 started" . localtime() . "\n";
}

use Blarfle;

# *SNIP*
Again, I received Error 2186. However, I still didn't see any output in d:\daemon.err.

What did I miss?

In reply to Re: (tye)Re: Win32::Daemon by donaldm314
in thread Win32::Daemon by Macphisto

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