#!/usr/bin/perl
$pidfile="/home/httpd/perl/logs/lonmemcached.pid";
$logfile="/home/httpd/perl/logs/lonmemcached.log";

if (-e $pidfile) {
   open(LFH,"$pidfile");
   my $pide=<LFH>;
   chomp($pide);
   close(LFH);
   if (kill 0 => $pide) { die "already running $pide"; }
}

if ($pid=fork()) { exit; }
open (PIDSAVE,">$pidfile");
print PIDSAVE "$$\n";
close(PIDSAVE);

exec("/usr/local/bin/memcached -m 256 -v > $logfile");