in reply to Re^2: Daemon dies instantly
in thread Daemon dies instantly

As you may gather, I figured that out as I was writing the description.

Good work dd-b++. And that is why we encourage honing the problem description and sample script - most often you'll figure it out for yourself along the way. ;)

True laziness is hard work

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Re^4: Daemon dies instantly
by dd-b (Pilgrim) on Oct 17, 2011 at 15:00 UTC

    I've had prominent personal experiences with that effect since, oh, around 1971 sometime I think!

    What I was hoping to get out of the original post was whether there were known gotchas, easy ways to mess this up and get this symptom. I find it's worth checking, when one can, for this sort of thing.