Hello all. I have been using the twisted library for quite some time and I must say it is the best library for xmlrpc. I have a tcp server listening on a port and I use reactor.run() to start it. Now I want to learn how to daemonise the entire code. I am paisting the code below. from twisted.web import xmlrpc, server #reactor from the twisted library starts the server with a published object and listens on a given port. from twisted.internet import reactor from time import strftime import rpc_organisation import rpc_vendor import rpc_customer import rpc_product #rest of the modules similarly imported, each containing a class inherited from xmlrpc.XMLRPC #the main class class gnukhata(xmlrpc.XMLRPC): #note that all the functions to be accessed by the client must have the xmlrpc_ prefix. def __init__(self): xmlrpc.XMLRPC.__init__(self) #the client however will not use the prefix to call the functions. #self.client_id = dbconnect.getConnection() def xmlrpc_getOrganisationNames(self): #this function is used to return the list of organsations found in gnukhata.xml located at /etc.Returns a list of organisations already present in the file #calling the function for getting list of organisation nodes. orgs = dbconnect.getOrgList() #initialising an empty list for organisation names orgnames = [] for org in orgs: orgname=org.find("orgname") #checking for unique names. #we will use the not in clause here. if orgname.text not in orgnames: orgnames.append(orgname.text) return orgnames #similarly a few other methods for this class. #create an instance of the class to be published as the service. print "initialising application" gnukhata = gnukhata() organisation = rpc_organisation.organisation() gnukhata.putSubHandler('organisation',organisation) people = rpc_people.people() gnukhata.putSubHandler('people',people) vendor = rpc_vendor.vendor() gnukhata.putSubHandler('vendor',vendor) #... and so on. #Now the code for running the server. #publish the object and make it to listen on the given port through reactor print "starting server" reactor.listenTCP(7081, server.Site(gnukhata)) #start the service by running the reactor. reactor.run() The code is from a python script called rpc_main.py which is in a package gnukahta where all other classes are also kept. to run it right now, I get into the gnukhata directory and do a sudo ./rpc_main.py because some actions in this file need sudo permission. Now could some one tell me how to convert this reactor running process into a daemon? right now when I run this rpc_main.py file, the terminal does not return the prompt. I used ./rpc_main.py & to get the terminal back. But on a remote server this process is naturally killed when i logout from the remote shell. Besides I have to make this as a package so making a daeminised version to run is a good option. I have been reading a lot on this issue but did not find any good answer. I am not so much into the details of how twisted works except for this much. I guess my code would reflect how little I know about this amaising library. So I just want to know if I have to write a seperate file to run this as a daemon? As a side note, I used twistd -y rpc_main.py to see what happens. I got complaints on the imports like the one given at the top of my code. These modules are in the same gnukhata package as the rpc_main.py itself and run perfectly in other conditions. So please help, this is really confusing me. Thanking all, Happy hacking. Krishnakant.