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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

## An example of how to daemonize.  See the IPC::Run LIMITATIONS section for
## some reasons why this can be a bit dangerous.

use strict ;

use IPC::Run qw( run close_terminal ) ;

run(
   sub {
      # ... your code here ...
      sleep 15 ;
   },
   init => sub {
      close_terminal ;
      exit if fork ;
   }
) ;