[Twisted-Python] Creating a daemon from my application

gary clark burslem2001 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 15 10:14:21 MDT 2010


Thanks Reza I wil give it a crack.

Much appreciated,
Garyc


--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Reza Lotun <rlotun at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Reza Lotun <rlotun at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] Creating a daemon from my application
> To: "Twisted general discussion" <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 10:35 AM
> Hi,
> 
> > I want to create a twisted daemon from my application:
> ...
> 
> You want to use twistd. See
> http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/basics.html#auto1
> 
> The process is roughly:
> 
> 1) create a myapp.tac file which essentially loads in your
> server and
> wraps it in an application
> 2) run something like:
>        $ twistd -r epoll -y
> myapp.tac
> which will daemonize your server (using the epoll reactor)
> and write
> its pid to twistd.pid
> 
> A .tac file could look something like:
> 
> from twisted.application import service, internet
> from myapp import MyAppServer
> 
> def get_service():
>     """ Return a service suitable for creating an
> application object. """
>     site = MyAppServer()
>     port = 2000
>     return internet.TCPServer(2000, site)
> 
> application = service.Application('MyApplicationName')
> # attach the service to its parent application
> service = get_service()
> service.setServiceParent(application)
> 
> Also, keep in mind you might want to use twistd in
> conjunction with a
> process runner (http://dustin.github.com/2010/02/28/running-processes.html).
> That is, if you're using something like Ubuntu, you
> probably want to
> run twistd using upstart.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Reza
> 
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