I'm trying to use Python and PyGTK + Glade, along with Bash. I want to make a GUI for the Linux vpnclient command-line tool. (Look for linux-vpnclient.tar.gz on the Internet if you are curious.) Anyway, this vpnclient tool connects to VPN and then stays locked like that while the VPN connection is running. What I was trying to do was either spawn it and then use another command-line tool to check on its status, or shell the process and redirect all its output text to the GTK textbox in the GUI. Here's the problems I found with that:
* Spawn - This seems to spawn the process okay, but when the vpnclient connection is finally loaded, it holds the process and the GUI cannot return to being responsive -- it locks the GUI up, essentially. I tried os.NO_WAIT and os.DETACH but os.NO_WAIT was no solution and os.DETACH only works in the documentation, not in my version of Python. * Shell - This seems to do the same thing as spawn but instead of sending output to a console, it sends the output into a console-less space. Then, because the VPN connection is locked-in, it also holds the GUI up and hangs it. I tried using the " &" operator but that seemed to have no effect in fixing this problem. What's the trick? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
