Dear Monks, i have written a script that uses Daemon::Simple to daemonize and DBIx::DWIW for some very basic database operations. In the main loop, the script looks for some information from a logfile than updates a MySQL Database with that information and eventually sends an eMail, thatn it starts over again. Now the problem: The script runs fine when startet with daemonizing outcommented, as soon as i remove the # in front of Daemon::Simple::init(...) the script hangs at the first Execute(); here's some of the code:

use strict;
use Daemon::Simple;
use Log;
use DBIx::DWIW;
use Mail::Sender;
use Data::Dumper;

if ($ARGV[0] eq 'start') {
  start();
} elsif ($ARGV[0] eq 'stop') {
  stop();
}

#### S T O P PROGRAM ####
sub stop {

  $Log->log_it ("info", "$prog_name exiting...");

  ## Initialize Daemon ##
  my $homedir = '/';
  my $pidfile = "/var/run/$prog_name.$service_name.pid";
  my $command = 'stop';
  Daemon::Simple::init($command,$homedir,$pidfile);

}



#### S T A R T PROGRAM ####
sub start {
  $Log->log_it ("info", "$prog_name started.");
  $DB  = DBIx::DWIW->Connect (@dbpref) || $Log->error("No Database-Con
+nection!!");


  ## Initialize Daemon ##
  my $homedir = '/';
  my $pidfile = "/var/run/$prog_name.$service_name.pid";
  my $command = 'start';
#  Daemon::Simple::init($command,$homedir,$pidfile);

  loop();
}




  sub loop {

    ## Daemon Loop ##
    while (1) {

      $Log->debug('loop started...');
      @tasks_processed = ();


      my @entries = get_new_entries;
#      $Log->debug('entries: '.Dumper (@entries));

      # prepare SQL
      my $sthErrMsg = $DB->Prepare ("UPDATE tasks SET task_errormsg = 
+?, task_done = '1' WHERE task_id = ?");

      for (@entries) {
        # doing some stuff with @entries
        # ....

        # update DB
        $sthErrMsg->Execute($status, $task_id) or $Log->error("DB Erro
+r: $@");  # here it hangs forever when Daemonized

        # some other stuff
      }
    } # end while
  } # end loop ()
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Is Daemon::Simple conflicting with DBI?