> I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I certainly haven't been able > to find an answer. > > Is it possible to set the program name as seen by the > operating system or lower-level libraries? > > I'm connecting to a database, and the runtime helpfully > sends some information to the server, such as username, > pid, and program name. > > Unfortunately, all my python programs get the name > '/usr/bin/python', and I would like to force that to > be the names of the individual scripts.
I don't know the answer to your question but I would start by trying to figure out what information is really sent to the db. I mean it is probably an environment variable or something like that, and once you figure out exactly what it is, you will know what variable to set. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
