Hi John,
It looks like the script is designed that way. It spawns a thread to
listen for requests on port 59278 then blocks while waiting for any
input (or specifically EOF).
You should follow Sean's advice or find another script.
Or, you could read this very well documented recipe I found when I
Googled for "how-to write python daemon process"
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/278731/
and then modify the script accordingly. World domination will follow
shortly afterward, I'm sure :-)
-Mark
On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:53 AM, John Mort wrote:
I'm hoping this is just a Python problem. I have a Python script
that I got
from:
http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/01/eye-fi-standalone-
server.html
The script itself:
http://www.darkeneddesire.com/EyeFiServer/EyeFiServer.py
It's an Eye-Fi server that, with only one small modification, works
quite
well on my linux machine. The problem is, when I run the script,
it tells
me to hit return to stop the script. I'd like this thing to run
all the
time, and I suspect that this "hit return" thing is preventing me
from doing
so.
Initially I tried: python EyeFiServer.py &
But apparently, as soon as I hit enter after typing exit (or any other
command for that matter), the script stops.
So I tried starting screen, running the same command there, then
killing
screen, but this appears to stop the script as well. I've also tried
preappending nohup to the command, both with and without screen,
with the
same results.
Is there some kind of simple trick to daemonizing python scripts?
Or am I
about to spend a lot of time learning Python?
--
John D. Mort
http://john.mort.net
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