daemonize

Description

daemonize is a library for writing system daemons in Python. It was forked from daemonize.sourceforge.net. It is distributed under PSF license.

Installation

You can install it from Python Package Index (PyPI):

$ pip install daemonize

Usage

#!/usr/bin/env python

from time import sleep

import daemonize

pid = "/tmp/test.pid"
logfile = "/tmp/test.log"


def main():
    while True:
        daemonize.logging.debug("Doing some pointless job.")
        sleep(5)

daemonize.start(main, pid, logfile, debug=True)