Hi,
in that case you need to start your deamon by configuring /etc/inittab,
don't you?
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
HTH
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 03:16:23 -0400
"Chas Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/8/07, Juan Pablo Feria Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all, I need to start a perl daemon at an BSD's startup (rc.local,
> > not interactive), i found the way to run the script as a daemon, but i
> > want:
> >
> > a) Send all the output to an tty , say, go to tty6 (ctrl+alt+F6) and
> > see the output of my perl daemon
> >
> > b) Interact (if possible) on that TTY with the daemon...
> >
> > Is this possible? dows anybody have any pointers to modules or -web
> > search terms- to find documentation on this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
>
> Writing to /dev/tty6 as root works on my Linux box.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $console = '/dev/tty6';
>
> open my $out, '>', $console
> or die "could not open $console\n";
>
> select $out;
>
> my $cont = 1;
> $SIG{TERM} = sub { $cont = 0 };
> while ($cont) {
> print localtime() . "\r\n";
> sleep 2;
> }
> print "all done\n";
>
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