[OT] writing Perl scripts to run in the background

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

I have a script that needs to run all the time to glue two processes
together.  I wrote it in Perl and it works but I have to start it up
manually and it writes to the screen.  I want to convert it to run in the
background like a deamon, creating a PID file (I guess?), catching SIG's,
writing to a log file, being started during boot, controlled through
/etc/rc.d/init.d, etc.  I'm not a crack UNIX programmer and so I thought I
would see if anyone had a boilerplate or sample program I could start from.
 This is for Red Hat 6.x machines, if that matters.  Thanks in advance

-Alan
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