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    use POSIX;
    $App::Daemon::kill_sig = SIGINT;

Note that his requires the numerial value (SIGINT via POSIX.pm), not a
string like "SIGINT".

=item status

will print out diagnostics on what the status of the daemon is. Typically,
the output looks like this:

    Pid file:    ./tt.pid
    Pid in file: 15562
    Running:     yes
    Name match:  1
        /usr/local/bin/perl -w test.pl

This indicates that the pidfile says that the daemon has PID 15562 and
that a process with this PID is actually running at this moment. Also,
a name grep on the process name in the process table results in 1 match,
according to the output above.

Note that the name match is unreliable, as it just looks for a command line
that looks approximately like the script itself. So if the script is
C<test.pl>, it will match lines like "perl -w test.pl" or 
"perl test.pl start", but unfortunately also lines like 
"vi test.pl".

If the process is no longer running, the status output might look like
this instead:

    Pid file:    ./tt.pid
    Pid in file: 14914
    Running:     no

README  view on Meta::CPAN

        SIGINT), set

            use POSIX;
            $App::Daemon::kill_sig = SIGINT;

        Note that his requires the numerial value (SIGINT via POSIX.pm), not
        a string like "SIGINT".

    status
        will print out diagnostics on what the status of the daemon is.
        Typically, the output looks like this:

            Pid file:    ./tt.pid
            Pid in file: 15562
            Running:     yes
            Name match:  1
                /usr/local/bin/perl -w test.pl

        This indicates that the pidfile says that the daemon has PID 15562
        and that a process with this PID is actually running at this moment.
        Also, a name grep on the process name in the process table results
        in 1 match, according to the output above.

        Note that the name match is unreliable, as it just looks for a
        command line that looks approximately like the script itself. So if
        the script is "test.pl", it will match lines like "perl -w test.pl"
        or "perl test.pl start", but unfortunately also lines like "vi
        test.pl".

        If the process is no longer running, the status output might look
        like this instead:

            Pid file:    ./tt.pid
            Pid in file: 14914
            Running:     no