Bug #21582 for Pod-Webserver: podwebserver exits for no apparent reason

The server seems to stay up for 5 hours, almost to the minute. Is this a timeout period somewhere?

Found it! There is a timeout after 5 hours of inactivity. From line 160 of lib/Pod/Webserver.pm #====================================================================== ==== sub new_daemon { my $self = shift; my @opts = ( defined($self->httpd_host) ? (LocalHost => $self->httpd_host) : (), LocalPort => $self->httpd_port || 8020, Timeout => defined($self->httpd_timeout) ? $self->httpd_timeout : (5*3600), # exit after 5H idle ); $self->muse( "Starting daemon with options {@opts}" ); HTTP::Daemon->new(@opts) || die "Can't start a daemon: $!\nAborting"; } #====================================================================== ==== Despite the fact that this is a default timeout value, there's no way of passing in a different number. Ideally, for my instance I want no timeout at all, and for the daemon script to keep running. This would require a new command line option to the podwebserver script.

I went through almost exactly the same train of "WTF" as Ivor did. I'd start up the podwebserver, use it and then find it mysteriously gone the next day. A server which shuts itself down after a certain period of time is very surprising. I can't think of anything else which works that way. select() is a quiescent function and any decent OS should swap out the memory of an idle server. If I want something that shuts down when its not in use I'll use inetd. Please just change the default to not timeout.