Hi Michael, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:03:54PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> What I want is to have this startup, after my board has it’s networking > >> layer up and running (and hopefully a valid ip address by then), and to > >> just keep running forever > > > > may be you think about the fork(), eg: > > No, you you don't need to do this. Systemd can handle all of that for > you. Read up on the docs on creating systemd services. Here's a little > blog post that has some good examples, both a non-daemonizing service > and a daemonizing service: > > http://patrakov.blogspot.com/2011/01/writing-systemd-service-files.html > > Any executable file can be turned into a daemon service with systemd > (whether or not it forks itself into the background). Thus any python > script can easily be run from systemd.
thanks a lot, I didn't hear about that feature. Cheers, Ervin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list