[Tutor] how to run a process forever

[W W]

while True:
is also a common way to make your program "run forever". Although you still
need to create some sleep/wait function or it will eat up your available
processes (so I'm told).

-HTH,
Wayne

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Steve Willoughby <steve at alchemy.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:23:48PM -0600, shawn bright wrote:
> > Hey gents,
> >
> > I have an interesting problem. I need to have a python script start
> > when a computer boots up, and i need it to run forever.
> > I also am going to run a script by cron that will check to see if the
> > process is running, if not, i need a python script to execute
> > the script.
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding your meaning, but usually programs which do
> this don't do anything unusual other than... well... simply run forever
> in the background (launched from the startup scripts or cron, disassociated
> from any TTY, of course).  A watchdog re-launcher cron script is also
> not uncommon.
>
> If your script isn't actively doing something it's good to put it to
> sleep until some interesting event (or timer) wakes it up.
>
> Was there something beyond that you were looking for?
>
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