Python daemon and popen2

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:12:04 -0400 schrieb Bob Swerdlow:

> I've created a Python daemon that starts a bunch of BitTorrent downloader
> process.  Everything is working fine when I start the daemon by hand (logged
> on as root).  I can quit the session and see that the daemon is running and
> the subprocesses are running, too.  However, when I configure the system to
> automatically start the daemon on boot-up, the daemon runs, but the
> processes are not created.
> 
> This is on Solaris 8 with Python 2.3.3.  The processes are started with
> popen2.  I'm starting the processes with a script in /etc/rc3.d/S81btseeds.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Why should it care that it is running at start-up?

Hi,

The environment is different. Check for $HOME, $PATH, umask, ...

HTH,
 Thomas