[Tutor] run in "deamon" mode?

[Remco Gerlich]

Hi,

A few days ago, someone posted a "daemon.py" to Reddit, that's supposed to
do everything needed. Haven't used it myself, but here it is:
http://hathawaymix.org/Software/Sketches/daemon.py

Remco

On Jan 10, 2008 6:41 AM, Allen Fowler <allen.fowler at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> How can a make a python script run in "deamon mode"? (on a linux box)
>
> That is, I want to run the program via "python myfile.py" and have it drop
> me back to the command line.  The program should continue running until I
> kill it via it's PID, the machine shuts down, or the program itself decides
> to shutdown.   It should _not_  die when I simply log-out, etc.
>
> Is there a standard library module to help with this?
>
> -- Thank you
>
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