You can run it indefinitely. But do set up a cron to check that it is running and restart at need.
This will make sure it is still there after a reboot or an unhappy run in with the OOM killer. On Wednesday, May 20, 2015, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm running a small simple tcp & udp monitoring daemon using INET sockets > in perl. I'm wondering how long I can safely expect perl + this app to > run non-stop? It's run for ~ 6 wks. so far on HPUX and RH linux without > bad behavior (leaks, crashes, execution errors, etc.). I'd prefer to > avoid the added complexity of periodically forking a new daemon if six > months or so is reasonably achievable. What do others experience? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

