thanks thats perfect!
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2005-05-23, Matthew Thorley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I wrote a simple python program that scrapes a web page every >>30 secons and dumps the result in a data base. I want to use >>my linux distros build in init tools to run the script in the >>back ground as a daemon. The problem is when I call the daemon >>script to background the program I wrote it just hangs, >>waiting for my program to exit 1 or 0. My program never does >>exits because its looping every 30 seconds. >> >>Is there a way I can pass an exit value with out actualy exiting? > > > No. > > >>or is there are better way to do this? > > > Yes. > > To be a well-behavied daemon, you need to do the things > described in this howto: > > http://www.linuxprofilm.com/articles/linux-daemon-howto.html > > Here are a couple references on how to do this in Python: > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731 > http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/ > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list