in reply to checking if daemon is running

Is not a 'perlish' (sorry to perlmonkers-purists for this hibrid), but it is a one line solution: 
perl -e '( system("test -e /var/run/process_email.pid && ps nh -p`cat 
+/var/run/process_email.pid` >& /dev/null") == 0 ) or print "Not Runni
+ng!\n";'

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perl -Te 'print map { chr((ord)-((10,20,2,7)$i++)) } split //,"turo"'

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