NAME

Daemon::Simple - Perl extension for making script as daemon with start|stop controlling on unix system

SYNOPSIS

use Daemon::Simple;

Daemon::Simple::init($command);

or

Daemon::Simple::init($command,"~/");

or

my $homedir = `pwd`; chomp($homedir);
my $pidfile = "/var/run/ffencoder.pid";
my $command = $ARGV[0];
Daemon::Simple::init($command,$homedir,$pidfile);

## Daemon script ##
open(FILE,">out.txt");
select(FILE);


sleep(10);
close(FILE);
__END__

# in shell
$ perl foo.pl start
$ perl foo.pl stop

DESCRIPTION

This module is good for making a script as a daemon. A daemon script has start|stop controlling command. It is simple by adding Daemon::Simple::init() on first line of script.

This module is implemented by wrapping Proc::Daemon.

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

Proc::Daemon

Proc::ProcessTable

AUTHOR

HyeonSeung Kim, <sng2nara@hanmail.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2007 by sng2nara

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.