I've prepared a patch that adds an option to tmda-ofmipd '-D, --daemon'
that puts the program into the background. With this option, you don't
need to use an '&' at the end of a command string to background
tmda-ofmipd. The impetus for this patch was that I was having problems
starting tmda-ofmipd from an init script on my Mandrake 8.2 box. There
is a thread on the tmda-users mailing list that describes the problems I
was having more fully.
So, here is the patch. I hope people find it useful enough to be
incorporated into the distribution. Comments are welcome, but if you
post to tell me what I did wrong, you have to tell me why it's wrong and
how to do it right.
Andrew
? tmda.diff
Index: bin/ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tmda/tmda/bin/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.233
diff -u -r1.233 ChangeLog
--- bin/ChangeLog 21 Sep 2002 00:27:44 -0000 1.233
+++ bin/ChangeLog 3 Oct 2002 03:58:08 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-10-02 Andrew St. Jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * tmda-ofmipd: Add a new option '-D, --daemon' to force the
+ program to run in the background. The PID of the daemonized
+ process is printed to standard out.
+
2002-09-20 Jason R. Mastaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tmda-pending (main): Run the headers through an RFC 2047 decoder
Index: bin/tmda-ofmipd
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tmda/tmda/bin/tmda-ofmipd,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 tmda-ofmipd
--- bin/tmda-ofmipd 11 Sep 2002 22:35:59 -0000 1.17
+++ bin/tmda-ofmipd 3 Oct 2002 03:58:11 -0000
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
--debug
Turn on debugging prints.
+ -D
+ --daemon
+ Run tmda-ofmipd as a background process.
+
-u <username>
--username <username>
The username that this program should run under. The default
@@ -132,6 +136,7 @@
program = sys.argv[0]
configdir = None
authprog = None
+daemon = 0
remoteauth = { 'proto': None,
'host': 'localhost',
'port': None,
@@ -191,7 +196,7 @@
try:
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:],
- 'p:u:R:A:a:c:C:dVh', ['proxyport=',
+ 'p:u:R:A:a:c:C:dDVh', ['proxyport=',
'username=',
'authfile=',
'remoteauth=',
@@ -199,6 +204,7 @@
'configdir=',
'connections=',
'debug',
+ 'daemon',
'version',
'help'])
except getopt.error, msg:
@@ -215,6 +221,8 @@
sys.exit()
elif opt in ('-d', '--debug'):
DEBUGSTREAM = sys.stderr
+ elif opt in ('-D', '--daemon'):
+ daemon = 1
elif opt in ('-p', '--proxyport'):
proxyport = arg
elif opt in ('-u', '--username'):
@@ -1033,4 +1041,28 @@
# This is the end my friend.
if __name__ == '__main__':
+ if daemon:
+ try:
+ pid = os.fork()
+ if pid > 0:
+ sys.exit(0)
+ except OSError:
+ value = sys.exc_info()[1]
+ print 'Failed to daemonize process: %s' % value
+ sys.exit(1)
+
+ os.chdir('/')
+ os.setsid()
+ os.umask(0)
+
+ try:
+ pid = os.fork()
+ if pid > 0:
+ print pid
+ sys.exit(0)
+ except OSError:
+ value = sys.exc_info()[1]
+ print 'Failed to daemonize process: %s' % value
+ sys.exit(1)
+
main()
