On 2005-05-23, Matthew Thorley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote a simple python program that scrapes a web page every > 30 secons and dumps the result in a data base. I want to use > my linux distros build in init tools to run the script in the > back ground as a daemon. The problem is when I call the daemon > script to background the program I wrote it just hangs, > waiting for my program to exit 1 or 0. My program never does > exits because its looping every 30 seconds. > > Is there a way I can pass an exit value with out actualy exiting?
No. > or is there are better way to do this? Yes. To be a well-behavied daemon, you need to do the things described in this howto: http://www.linuxprofilm.com/articles/linux-daemon-howto.html Here are a couple references on how to do this in Python: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731 http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/ -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Intra-mural sports at results are filtering visi.com through th' plumbing... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
