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deb-python-daemonize/daemonize.py
Ilya A. Otyutskiy 10bfa1c243 New version: 2.1.1.
- Fix tests.
- Fix empty self.keep_fds behaviour.
- Add tests for self.keep_fds.
- Update README.md.
2012-09-24 19:26:51 +04:00

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# #!/usr/bin/python
import fcntl
import os
import sys
import signal
import resource
import logging
import atexit
from logging import handlers
class Daemonize(object):
""" Daemonize object
Object constructor expects three arguments:
- app: contains the application name which will be sent to syslog.
- pid: path to the pidfile.
- action: your custom function which will be executed after daemonization.
- keep_fds: optional list of fds which should not be closed.
"""
def __init__(self, app, pid, action, keep_fds=None):
self.app = app
self.pid = pid
self.action = action
if keep_fds:
self.keep_fds = keep_fds
else:
self.keep_fds = []
# Initialize logging.
self.logger = logging.getLogger(self.app)
self.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
# Display log messages only on defined handlers.
self.logger.propagate = False
# It will work on OS X and Linux. No FreeBSD support, guys, I don't
# want to import re here to parse your peculiar platform string.
if sys.platform == "darwin":
syslog_address = "/var/run/syslog"
else:
syslog_address = "/dev/log"
syslog = handlers.SysLogHandler(syslog_address)
syslog.setLevel(logging.INFO)
# Try to mimic to normal syslog messages.
formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s %(name)s: %(message)s",
"%b %e %H:%M:%S")
syslog.setFormatter(formatter)
self.logger.addHandler(syslog)
def sigterm(self, signum, frame):
""" sigterm method
These actions will be done after SIGTERM.
"""
self.logger.warn("Caught signal %s. Stopping daemon." % signum)
os.remove(self.pid)
sys.exit(0)
def start(self):
""" start method
Main daemonization process.
"""
# Fork, creating a new process for the child.
process_id = os.fork()
if process_id < 0:
# Fork error. Exit badly.
sys.exit(1)
elif process_id != 0:
# This is the parent process. Exit.
sys.exit(0)
# This is the child process. Continue.
# Stop listening for signals that the parent process receives.
# This is done by getting a new process id.
# setpgrp() is an alternative to setsid().
# setsid puts the process in a new parent group and detaches its
# controlling terminal.
process_id = os.setsid()
if process_id == -1:
# Uh oh, there was a problem.
sys.exit(1)
# Close all file descriptors, except the ones mentioned in
# self.keep_fds.
devnull = "/dev/null"
if hasattr(os, "devnull"):
# Python has set os.devnull on this system, use it instead
# as it might be different than /dev/null.
devnull = os.devnull
for fd in range(resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[0]):
if fd not in self.keep_fds:
try:
os.close(fd)
except OSError:
pass
os.open(devnull, os.O_RDWR)
os.dup(0)
os.dup(0)
# Set umask to default to safe file permissions when running
# as a root daemon. 027 is an octal number.
os.umask(027)
# Change to a known directory. If this isn't done, starting
# a daemon in a subdirectory that needs to be deleted results
# in "directory busy" errors.
# On some systems, running with chdir("/") is not allowed,
# so this should be settable by the user of this library.
os.chdir("/")
# Create a lockfile so that only one instance of this daemon
# is running at any time.
lockfile = open(self.pid, "w")
# Try to get an exclusive lock on the file. This will fail
# if another process has the file locked.
fcntl.lockf(lockfile, fcntl.LOCK_EX | fcntl.LOCK_NB)
# Record the process id to the lockfile. This is standard
# practice for daemons.
lockfile.write("%s" % (os.getpid()))
lockfile.flush()
# Set custom action on SIGTERM.
signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self.sigterm)
atexit.register(self.sigterm)
self.logger.warn("Starting daemon.")
self.action()