SimpleXMLRPCServer daemon

[Tim Wintle]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 07:54 -0800, Thomas Allen wrote:
> The second is that when it does crash, I don't know about it...what
> would be sufficient as a "keep-alive" script to restart it? I suppose
> I could use something like EventMachine (already installed on my
> server) to watch the PID file if it were deleted reliably.

If the server crashes then it clearly won't get around to deleting it's
pid file.

The way I do it is to use os.kill (with signal 0 IIRC) to check if the
process is still alive when the script starts. If it's not then I delete
the pid file and carry on starting up.

Tim