starting a python script daemon at Linux boot time

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <7hlkvj$58r$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Mookie D.  <mookied at iname.com> wrote:
>
>QUESTION #2: Need to run it as background task from init.d script?
>
>I discovered that running "./dmbooter start" didn't return, so I added
>an & to the daemon line of start part of script:
>
>            daemon /usr/local/dm/booter/dmbooter.py &
>
>Is this ok to do?

Yup!

>QUESTION #3: What if dmbooter.py has stdout or stderr output? Where does
>it go?  Should I redirect it somewhere?

Yup!

       daemon /usr/local/dm/booter/dmbooter.py  >/var/log/foo 2>&1 &
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