hey Jean-Paul,<div><br></div><div>I'm using twistd - if you see the daemon code it's in there to start and manage the service.<br><br>For some reason the OC Daemon pastebin linkted didn't work but this one does:<br>
<br>OC Daemon that starts the OC Service<br><a href="http://pastebin.com/g0UE7An8">http://pastebin.com/g0UE7An8</a><br><br>still know don't know what to change to get the service to run and detach from the parent process. Any help is appreciated.<br>
<br>Stephan<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:56 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:exarkun@twistedmatrix.com" target="_blank">exarkun@twistedmatrix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 6 Oct, 10:30 pm, <a href="mailto:schenette@gmail.com" target="_blank">schenette@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
>Hi,<br>
><br>
>I'm attempting to create an ubuntu service that when started will run<br>
>in<br>
>the background processing beanstalk jobs.<br>
>I've taken the code from beanstalk-client twisted to act as my<br>
>beanstalk<br>
>client (<br>
><a href="https://github.com/dustin/beanstalk-client-" target="_blank">https://github.com/dustin/beanstalk-client-</a><br>
>twisted/blob/master/beanstalk.py)<br>
><br>
>The issue I'm having is how do I set up my service (ocapi.py) so that<br>
>when<br>
>the daemon (ocapi) starts it detaches from the process, which isn't'<br>
>happening right now.<br>
<br>
</div>Use twistd, which comes with daemonization features. From the looks of<br>
your code, you're halfway there already.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/basics.html#auto1" target="_blank">http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/basics.html#auto1</a><br>
<a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/application.html" target="_blank">http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/application.html</a><br>
<br>
Jean-Paul<br>
<div>>ocapi.py (service) <--this is what should detach and I put it in<br>
>/usr/sbin/ocapi.py code found at <a href="http://pastebin.com/29VnXnrm" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/29VnXnrm</a><br>
>ocapi (daemon) <-- goes int /etc/init.d/ocapi code found at<br>
><a href="http://pastebin.com/0QgRfTfu" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/0QgRfTfu</a><br>
><br>
>stephan@oc:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ocapi start<br>
>* Starting ocapi... Removing stale pidfile /var/run/ocapi.pid<br>
>Connected!<br>
><br>
>...problem is I don't get my shell prompt back when i start the<br>
>service,<br>
>meaning it didn't detach from the parent process...hopefully someone<br>
>can<br>
>shed some light on this.<br>
>Thanks,<br>
>Stephan<br>
<br>
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