On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:54 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Krishnakant<[email protected]> wrote: > > hello all, > > I am happy to announce that we are almost ready with the deb packages > > for gnukhata-client as well as server. > > Now we are facing a problem and I thought some one like JTD would > > already know a solution to my problem. > > I have been trying to make a demon for gnukhata's server and want it to > > run as the postgres user. I would ideally want this to be in the init.d > > for start, stop and restart. In addition most of the people would want > > this to start at system boot. > > Googling for "install startup service linux" (without the quotes) and > "linux daemon howto" without quotes gave me this: > > To write a daemon (you have probably done this already if you have > written a server): > > http://www.netzmafia.de/skripten/unix/linux-daemon-howto.html > > To install it as a service: > > http://bitnami.org/article/how-to-install-services-on-linux > > For example scripts you can open any existing ones to see how they > work. They are all in /etc/init.d in most common distros. > yes and there is one dummi script template which can be used as well from the same folder. Now I would want to know how this all can be automated in a deb package.
The catch here is that since our python app is getting installed using the distutils magic, we don't have a make file which will or any such file to perform compile and post conpile tasks. I don't think setup.py is the right place to put such things. The rules file is a more appropriate place IMHO. happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
