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customize it, however, it seems a little out of date and I need a little help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
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