Monks,

I would like to have my scripts/daemons start up with : daemon.pl start, and quit (gracefully) with daemon.pl stop. Of course, I would like it also to respond to command line kill attempts...

The problem is that not only I am not entirely familiar with Unix signal handling (working on it...), but I also don't know what steps I should take in the Perl code itself to make sure that the daemon quits after finishing whatever task it was doing at the time the 'quit' signal came, and log everything...

The Camel book (v3) preaches the use of $SIG{} in conjunction with a sub, but I fear that by doing this way, the program will quit as soon as it receives the signal, which is not exactly what I want...

Thanks!

In reply to Gracefully exiting daemons by asiufy

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