Hello,

I'm trying to use the generic daemon from:
Generic Daemon CPAN

I'm starting with trying the example from the module. I cannot get the daemon to run. I get no error messages; just a message saying the daemon is starting. When I run the "check" subroutine it says that the config is fine and the daemon is not running. Here is the code I'm trying to get working. Does someone have a working example of this? Thanks! 


#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use Daemon::Generic;

my $sleeptime = 1;

 newdaemon(
        progname        => 'ticktockd',
        pidfile         => '/var/run/ticktockd.pid',
        configfile      => '/etc/ticktockd.conf',
 );

 sub gd_preconfig
 {
        my ($self) = @_;
        open(CONFIG, "</etc/ticktockd.conf") or die;
        while(<CONFIG>) {
                $sleeptime = $1 if /^sleeptime\s+(\d+)/;
        }
        close(CONFIG);
        return ();
 }

 sub gd_run
 {
        while(1) {
                sleep($sleeptime);
                print scalar(localtime(time))."\n";
        }
 }

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