From: Payton Swick <payton@...>
Date: 2006-01-06T05:47:43+09:00
Subject: Daemonize like fetchmail

Has anyone used the Daemons library (http://daemons.rubyforge.org/) 
extensively?  I'm trying to do something that doesn't appear covered by 
the examples, and I'm wondering if I need to reinvent the wheel.

What I'd like to do is to easily add functionality to my script similar 
to the way that fetchmail works, ie:

When starting the script with one command-line option (eg: --daemon), I 
daemonize it and start it running (saving the PID in a file).

When starting the script with another command-line option (eg: --stop), 
it finds the PID file and kills the instance.

In a sense, I'd like to combine the wrapper method given in the examples 
and the script it runs, but the wrapper example seems to absorb 
command-line options, and I want to call those functions from within 
Ruby instead.

Suggestions?

-Payton