in reply to checking if daemon is running

Have you looked at File::Pid?

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Re^2: checking if daemon is running
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Dec 12, 2005 at 20:04 UTC
    Perfect. that didn't match "process id" lol.
      Yes, a CPAN search on pidfile will give some more options. :)