On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 22:07 -0400, Neil Cherry wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > I would like to create a daemon server that could be used like sendmail,
> > dovecot etc. I would like it to monitor a specified port for queries
> > from a local network, and pass the queries to a database that is not
> > mysql or postgresql, and return the results to the same port,
> >
> > I do not have experience in C so I would prefer to use perl.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a tutorial?
>
> I don't have a tutorial but this should help:
>
> # OK Here is were I need to daemonize this program. (NJC)
> #
> # * Open /dev/tty and use the the TIOCNOTTY ioctl on it. See tty(4)
> # for details. Or better yet, you can just use the POSIX::setsid()
> # function, so you don't have to worry about process groups.
> # * Change directory to /
> # * Background yourself like this:
>
> setsid() || die "Can't start a new session: $!";
> chdir("/");
> fork && exit;
>
> Then open your network ports and proceed to listen.
>
> You might also want to use a search engine for "Perl daemon" you'll
> find links like this:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~ehood/Proc-Daemon-0.03/Daemon.pm
>
> --
> Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx
Neil,
Thanks for the information. Looks like what I want to do is possible!!!
Greg
