Re: Easy way to daemonize a POE script?

On 03/10/2010 10:17 AM, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> On 10 March 2010 18:02, Bruce Ferrell <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 03/10/2010 08:24 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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>>> Winfried Neessen wrote:
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>>>> Now I'd like to run it independently, so my question is, is there an
>>>> easy way for me to run a POE
>>>>
>>>> script daemonized (w/o having to use Unix backgrounding/forking)?
>>>>         
>   
>> Below is the code I use. Â It's a slightly modified version I found when
>> I googled for Perl daemon
>>     
> No no. This is not the approach. You're WRITING THIS CODE YOURSELF
> RATHER THAN USING A CPAN MODULE. I hope you have lots of tests for
> this wheel...
>
> BTW, I'd need a copy of Stevens handy to be sure, but I recall that
> the canonical unix daemonisation dance goes:
> double fork
> close standard file descriptors
> become session leader (POSIX::setsid IIRC)
> become process group leader (POSIX::setpgrp IIRC)
> set signal mask to ignore SIGHUP
> change working dir to root
> set file creation mask (umask)
> drop privileges
>
> I might well be missing a step. I think you did, too, though.
>
> /joel
>
>
>   
Been working several years now and like I say I got it straight off a
perl.org tutorial