Vincent Delporte wrote: > Hi > > I'm a Python newbie, and would like to rewrite this Perl scrip > to be run with the Asterisk PBX: > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+NetCID > > Anyone knows if those lines are necessary, why, and what their > alternative is in Python?
> open STDOUT, '>/dev/null'; Either redefine stdout to an open file object for /dev/null or run the script as "script.py >/dev/null" > fork and exit; something like: if os.fork(): sys.exit(0) Tells the parent to exit after the fork while the child keeps running. These are both steps in becoming a daemon (the comp.unix.programmer FAQ, while skewed toward C, explains why some of these steps are needed). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
