How can you have code for F without E?

At any rate, here is an article on building a load balacing daemon in Perl (I think this code is for Perl 4 but you should be able to hack it up to snuff). My guess is there is already a ton of better stuff out there, but this was the result of a 12 second search on Google: (e.g. PERL +DAEMON +(load balancing) which you may have tried before the long post ;)

BTW: Here's the author's updated link (add 2 seconds to my previous Google search time).