while True: is also a common way to make your program "run forever". Although you still need to create some sleep/wait function or it will eat up your available processes (so I'm told).
-HTH, Wayne On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Steve Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:23:48PM -0600, shawn bright wrote: > > Hey gents, > > > > I have an interesting problem. I need to have a python script start > > when a computer boots up, and i need it to run forever. > > I also am going to run a script by cron that will check to see if the > > process is running, if not, i need a python script to execute > > the script. > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding your meaning, but usually programs which do > this don't do anything unusual other than... well... simply run forever > in the background (launched from the startup scripts or cron, disassociated > from any TTY, of course). A watchdog re-launcher cron script is also > not uncommon. > > If your script isn't actively doing something it's good to put it to > sleep until some interesting event (or timer) wakes it up. > > Was there something beyond that you were looking for? > > -- > Steve Willoughby | Using billion-dollar satellites > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to hunt for Tupperware. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi
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