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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:02:30 +0100, Mike Scott wrote:   
      
   > The target program runs unattended for extended periods. It writes a   
   > lot of data to stdout and stderr. It is not of itself a daemon in   
   > the linux sense, just a large chunk of perl code that normally runs   
   > at a terminal. To make it a self-contained linux daemon would be a   
   > pain, and pointless duplication of code.   
      
   It shouldn’t take much work to make it runnable as a daemon. Remember,   
   the distinction in *nix isn’t that great, anyway: look at common   
   existing service daemons, and you will see that lots of them will run   
   fine in non-daemon mode, specifically to ease debugging.   
      
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