Provides a simple Daemon class to ease the process of forking a python application on Unix systems.
Project description
A fork of Shane Hathaway’s daemon.py script.
Features
reads the command line
reads a configuration file
configures logging
calls root-level setup code
drops privileges
calls user-level setup code
detaches from the controlling terminal
checks and writes a pidfile
Example
Writing a daemon requires creating two files, a daemon file and a configuration file with the same name.
hellodaemon.py:
import simpledaemon import logging import time class HelloDaemon(simpledaemon.Daemon): default_conf = '/etc/hellodaemon.conf' section = 'hello' def run(self): while True: logging.info('The daemon says hello') time.sleep(1) if __name__ == '__main__': HelloDaemon().main()
hellodaemon.conf:
[hello] uid = gid = pidfile = ./hellodaemon.pid logfile = ./hellodaemon.log loglevel = info
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