in reply to Setting Daemon Name

Depends on the OS; see perlvar for the $0 variable and give it a whirl.

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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
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      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).
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