Hi Nick! This is much better than the kludge job I did - Thanks for the help!!
Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > rh0dium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem with putting a job in the background. Here is my > > (ugly) script which I am having problems getting to background. There > > are threads about doing > > > > python script.py & > > > > and others > > > > nohup python script.py & > > > > and yet others > > > > ( python script.py > /dev/null & ) & > > > > Regardless timing these all produce (roughly the same time) and none of > > them are backgrounded.. > > I suspect you want the old fork/setsid/fork trick... > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66012 > > That releases the controlling terminal from your job and it exits > from the process group. > > You could probably close / redirect stdin/out/err too. Search for > daemonize.py and you'll find a module which does all this. > > -- > Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
