ybiC has you covered, and i recommend Proc::Daemon,
but if you really want to get a
full understanding on daemons and servers (forking,
pre-forking, pre-threaded, etc.) then get thee a copy
of Network Programming with Perl.
You will not regret it. ;)
Yes. The key here is that what I want to do is not write my own daemon code. That is fairly tangential to what I have to do. I just need to pop off a quick little "sumthin sumthin" . If I really need to, I will write a daemon app POSIX style, but my focus is more on what the daemon should do, not how to make it. Thus I just want to knock off a generic module. I've settled on
Net::Daemon as the weapon of choice for me today. I'll definitely read the book tho - thanks...
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