> What is the convention for handling daemonization in a POE application? > > In particular, what I am wondering is whether typically one daemonizes > before $poe_kernel->run() or do the daemonization in one of the > "application manager" sessions. > > For example, I am considering using what I call a "StoreKeeper" session > to handle application initialization with AppConfig, start up other > helper sessions, etc. Following that paradigm, some where in the > "_start" event handler of "StoreKeeper", it probably should also > daemonize (using Net::Server::Daemonize).
I'm using the Daemon module that Lincoln Stein develops in his book "Network Programming with Perl". I could have used Net::Server::Daemonize but I was reading the book at the time... :-) My "binary" (main script) reads config, daemonizes, then creates my Bootstrap session, then $poe_kernel->run(). The hardest part was capturing all of the output to a log. There are certain errors that cause POE to quit silently without a visible error message if it's detached from the terminal. <sigh> But 2 chapters later, Lincoln introduced logging... :-) L8r, Rob
