Setting Daemon Name

totalled has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, New to PerlMonks! Not new to Perl, but new to using scripts as daemons and have a question that likely has a simple answer;
I have a script that is successfully initializing as a background process, but when viewing the list of processes it appears as "Perl" under the Process Name. Is there any way to set this to something else? Thanks!

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Re: Setting Daemon Name by Fletch (Bishop) on May 24, 2010 at 16:15 UTC
Depends on the OS; see perlvar for the $0 variable and give it a whirl. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re^2: Setting Daemon Name by totalled (Initiate) on May 24, 2010 at 16:29 UTC
Ahh. I had been setting that, but in the Fedora GUI it only shows what I set it to when hovering over it. When running ps aux, it shows what I want. Good enough for me! Thanks for the quick reply...and the -1 rep? LOL	[reply]
Re^3: Setting Daemon Name by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 24, 2010 at 22:27 UTC
A change that went into 5.12 or will go into 5.14 makes assigning to `$0` more encompassing on linux by using prctl(2).	[reply] [d/l]