daemons 0.2.0

Well behaved unix daemons for every occasion.

Well behaved unix daemons for every occasion.

What Is Daemons?

Daemons is a resource library for Python developers that want to create daemon processes.

The idea is to provide the basic daemon functionality while still giving the developer the ability to customize their daemon for any purpose.

Simply import, extend, and start().

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#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import logging
import time

from daemons.base import Daemon


class SleepyDaemon(Daemon):

    def run(self):

        while True:

            time.sleep(1)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    action = sys.argv[1]

    logging.basicConfig(filename="daemon.log", level=logging.DEBUG)
    d = SleepyDaemon(pidfile='daemon.pid')

    if action == "start":

        d.start()

    elif action == "stop":

        d.stop()

    elif action == "restart":

        d.restart()

What else does it do?

The daemon classes in this package are simply meant to provide a base for building custom daemons. None of them “do” anything on their own. All daemons define a set of methods that can be overwritten to provide any amount of custom functionality.

Built in to each daemon class is:

• Pidfile management.

• Signal trapping.

• Logging output using Python’s standard lib “logging” module.

License

Copyright 2013 Kevin Conway

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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Contributing

All contributions to this project are protected under the agreement found in the CONTRIBUTING file. All contributors should read the agreement but, as a summary:

You give us the rights to maintain and distribute your code and we promise
to maintain an open source distribution of anything you contribute.