> > Could restarts and cleanups be done with a root daemon separate from user > scripts? >
I like the idea of a user creating a login as you do typically with client/server progs, no need to have the root password all the time: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html > FWIW, I recently read an article about how some internet-connected cameras > are much more accessible to the world than the owners probably intended, > even to the point, sometimes, of providing access to the built-in gui > control panel. So some thought seems appropriate in this area ;-). I'd like to read that article. My experience of wifi is that if you are not using the latest encryption standards then it will be hacked quite quickly. Otherwise if the product is cheap then I think you need to take a good look at the software running on it. I wouldn't put any CCTV anywhere near an Internet connected Windows machine (not unless someone at least in the first instance can tell me how to install the security updates without getting hacked first!). I've been looking at this type of (wired) product myself http://j.mp/gLycNf (the starting point for supported devices is here http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Device_Information ). At the end of the day it's a dodgy business connecting any home CCTV to a network - I'll fork out on a dedicated system if I need to essentially, but Redhat 6 'seems' (I'm sure I'd soon know if it wasn't) secure, and so it's not a priority (they are expensive). Computers are hacked in 2 ways, local crime will prefer to intrude and get direct access to the keyboard, but if you have your home CCTV installed then that does quite effectively keep them out, so the CCTV software keeps itself secure. As to hacking over the Internet, I've found on a security hardened Redhat install, it seems the browser (don't run flash - use a kiosk login for this, e.g., xguest http://j.mp/eGKL19 ) can still be hacked and with hacking of the computer's memory following possibly also, but nothing that has got through to the core of the operating system as yet, so the CCTV software (I hope! you usually can tell) is safe -- I've just reminded myself to put the browser in a virtual machine at some point :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
