Forwarding this in case anyone from one discussion wants to talk to anyone from the other. People are much better at identifying the interconnectedness of all things than search engines, etc.
HTH, Eric ---------- Forwarded Message: ---------- Subject: Re: [Pdx-pm] Writing Daemons with Perl? Date: Wednesday 09 March 2005 03:48 pm From: Wil Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also Sprach Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:19:06PM PST: ># The following was supposedly scribed by ># brendan at hollyking dot org > ># on Wednesday 09 March 2005 03:44 pm: >>I have a program that I need to convert to run as a daemon. That's >> the easy part, I found some web pages that showed me how to make the >> conversion. >> >>The information I can't seem to find is how to handle communicating >> with the program. What's a good way to make sure it can shutdown >>gracefully, reload if the configuration file is changed and things >> like that? > >F > FYI: There's been a discussion about this on module-authors over the > last couple of days. So, someone has invented that wheel in Perl > very recently! > > http://www.mail-archive.com/module-authors%40perl.org/msg03242.html Interesting; they don't seem to mention Net::Server, which does much or most of what they describe. I'm not subscribed, but if you are you might want to point it out to them. (I've just requested Gmane carry it; it looks interesting.) Wil
