In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm interested in taking the output of a daemonized shell script that >greps for patterns which would act as an argument to a script. Is it >better to write this stuff to file and visit the file every few seconds >or can this be done a better way. I'm hoping for a more elegant >solution. So far I've seen some troubling info about buffer overflows >with popen2 but it looks like the low-hanging fruit. I'm not a unixpro >so I want to make sure anything I tackle is best practice. Suggestions >welcomed.
I'm puzzled - a daemonised program normally closes stdin/stdout/stderr and disconnects from its controlling terminal, so where is its output going? -- Jim Segrave ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
