NAME

System::Daemon

DESCRIPTION

Swiss-knife for daemonization

SYNOPSIS

See little example:

    use System::Daemon;
    
    $0 = 'my_daemon_process_name';

    my $daemon = System::Daemon->new(
        user            =>  'username',
        group           =>  'groupname',
        pidfile         =>  'path/to/pidfile',
        daemonize       =>  0,
    );
    $daemon->daemonize();

    your_cool_code();

    $daemon->exit(0);

METHODS

new(%params)

Constructor, returns System::Daemon object. Available parameters:

    user            =>  desired_username,
    group           =>  desired_groupname,
    pidfile         =>  '/path/to/pidfile',
    procname        =>  process name for ps output,
    mkdir           =>  tries to create directory for pid files,
    daemonize       =>  if not true, will not daemonize, for debug reasons,
    procname        =>  after daemonize $0 will be updated to desired name,

daemonize

Call it to become a daemon.

exit($exit_code)

An exit wrapper, also, it performing cleanup before exit.

finish

Performing cleanup. At now cleanup is just pid file removing.

cleanup

Same as finish.

process_object

Returns System::Process object of daemon instance.