Thanks, Jean-Paul - is there any way to do it without using Twisted, since I am not very familiar with it? (i.e. just using the os library) Thanks.
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On 1 Jun 2006 07:34:23 -0700, D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, I need to write a server program that performs the following > >tasks: > > > >1) Listens on TCP port 5555 for a connection > >2) When client connects, launches application (for example, vi), then > >closes connection with client > >3) Goes back to listening on TCP port 5555 for an incoming connection > > Untested: > > from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor > > class ViRunner(protocol.Protocol): > def connectionMade(self): > reactor.spawnProcess( > None, > '/usr/bin/setsid', > ['setsid', '/usr/bin/vi']) > self.transport.loseConnection() > > f = protocol.ServerFactory() > f.protocol = ViRunner > reactor.listenTCP(5555, f) > reactor.run() > > Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list