RE: Re: Background Process

[merlyn]

You need to have the kid close STDOUT as well. I say this many times in my Web Techniques columns.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[ncw]

Or if you are feeling lazy you can do all the above forking, closing, reopening etc with :-

use Proc::Daemon;

#...

Proc::Daemon::Init();

[Anonymous Monk]

Could you provide a sample script? Thanks, David