Call to daemon in a /etc/init.d script is blocking, not running in background
- by tony
I have a Perl script that I want to daemonize. Basically this perl script will read a directory every 30 seconds, read the files that it finds and then process the data. To keep it simple here consider the following Perl script (called synpipe_server, there is a symbolic link of this script in /usr/sbin/) :
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use…