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Hello Guys, I’ve got a python script which I’m looking to launch as a Daemon on my system. There are a few things which need to be handled on the python side of things to get this to work, but I can deal with these myself without any issues. Where I DO need help though is with regards to writing the Daemon file for init.d which can then be used to launch and stop the Daemon. I hound an excellent little tutorial based here: http://girasoli.org/?p=120 which has helped me get started by creating a copy of the skeleton Daemon and start to customize it, however, it seems a little out of date and I need a little help with this. Within the Daemon control script we have do_start() and do_stop() methods. I need to know if these really need to be modified as stated in the tutorial? At the moment my start script looks like this: do_start() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \ || return 1 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \ $DAEMON_ARGS \ || return 2 # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend # on this one. As a last resort, sleep for some time. } Is that correct? Presumably I need to remove one of those start commands? Right? The same rule applied to the do_stop() method which currently contains a start-stop-daemon request, do I need to replace that with a standard kill command? Or will the start-stop-daemon handle that for me? Thanks for any input you can offer guys, I appreciate it. Robert Think you know your TV, music and film? Try Search Charades! |