[Tutor] thread not running

[Ben Bartrum]

Hello

I have the following, which I use within a CherryPy app.  The subprocess bit is just to see if it runs or not.   It works on my home PC (Python 2.5.1 on Ubuntu), but not on the live host which has Python 2.4.4 on Debian Etch.  


    def daemon():
      while 1:
         myperiodicfunction()
         p = subprocess.Popen('cal > /tmp/stilhere.txt', shell=True)
         time.sleep(30) 

    thread.start_new_thread(daemon,())

Is there a way to get it to work without upgrading Python (which I am not keen to do, as I prefer the packaged version & security updates)

Thanks

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