in reply to Creating a perl daemon

I'm not sure if this is what you would be looking for, but have you looked at Proc::Daemon?

TStanley
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Re^2: Creating a perl daemon
by dumpexec (Initiate) on Jul 14, 2004 at 20:01 UTC
    thanks for the lead, i will try it out and report the results