I'm kind of a newbie at this (web applications, that is, not Python programming), so I'd appreciate any advice others can offer.
I'm developing a Django app (post-M-R) that will communicate by email with some remote hosts (which are running archaic software that can't easily be updated to use some more modern form of communication), and then take information from the emails and insert it into the database. I can handle writing a Thread class that will poll the inbox periodically and process each of the messages it finds to create and save the appropriate model objects to the database. My question is, how can I launch this background daemon process so that I can be reasonably sure that there will always be one and only one instance of it running at any given time? I don't see any obvious "hook" in the Django code for running something when the server is first started up. It seems to me that modules like models.py, views.py etc. get imported multiple times so that there would be too many threads running if I tried to put it in one of these modules. Is this something that needs to be done within the webserver? If so, how? (I'm using the Django dev server for now but plan to switch to Apache for production.) And I also need some "hook" that will let me restart the daemon if it has crashed for some reason... Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Russ Blau --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
