in reply to Proc::Daemon vs daemon shell command
Daemonizing a process is a fairly generic thing to do so I would assume that both Proc::Daemon or daemon would essentially do the same thing.
However daemon is not a shell built-in but a utility that has to be installed, so it may come down to the question how you want to deploy your application.
Daemon::Control might also be an alternative as it can also generate init.d-scripts.
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