Bug #72107 for Proc-Daemon: An exec fails silenty

Tue Nov 01 18:08:45 2011 marko.nordberg [...] pp.inet.fi - Ticket created

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An exec fails silenty

If the exec of the command given with argument exec_command fails to start (e.g. Permission denied), it will do it totally silently. Because of this it might be very difficult to find the problem. Especially if the command is given in the configuration file by someone who doesn't know this behaviour. I tried modifying line 259 to: exec ($exec_command) or print STDERR "couldn't exec $exec_command: $!"; And it worked for me.

Wed Nov 02 03:52:48 2011 marko.nordberg [...] pp.inet.fi - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #72107] AutoReply: An exec fails silenty
Date:	Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:52:34 +0200
To:	bug-Proc-Daemon [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Marko Nordberg <Marko.Nordberg [...] pp.inet.fi>

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> I tried modifying line 259 to: > > exec ($exec_command) or print STDERR "couldn't exec $exec_command: $!"; > > And it worked for me.

I switched to using "die" instead of print, because that allows me to define an exception handling mechanism that logs the error in some other place than STDERR that may or may not be available in the child.

Fri Jan 23 09:55:21 2015 AKREAL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thank you for your suggestion, it was included in 0.16.

Fri Jan 23 09:55:22 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Jan 23 09:55:27 2015 AKREAL [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Fri Jan 23 09:55:28 2015 AKREAL [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.16 added