I think what you propose should work fine. I would set cron=False btw. On Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:08:08 UTC-5, Michael Ellis wrote: > > Thanks, Massimo. I'm using web2py as an interface to an industrial > process controller. The default rocket server and sqlite3 db are fine for > this app as it will never be serving pages to more than 2 or 3 clients at > time (usually just one via localhost). The process I want to label needs > to be the same one your startup message advises to kill with SIGTERM. > That's the one that runs the model and controller on each page request, > right? > > Your suggestion to paste web2py.py into the body of my top-level process > is intriguing. > > Looking at the code in web2py.py and considering that 1) my code will > never run as a frozen exe on Windows and 2) I can ignore at least for now > the coverage import, it appears I could reduce it to: > > import os > > import sys > > path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) # alter to make sure we > point toplevel web2py dir. > > os.chdir(path) > > sys.path = [path] + [p for p in sys.path if not p == path] > > # important that this import is after the os.chdir > > import gluon.widget > > # Start Web2py (without cron service) ! > > #TODO fix up sys.args to match my use case > > #TODO call setproctitle here > > gluon.widget.start(cron=True) > > So if I wrap all the above in a function, would I be able to launch it > successfully with multiprocessing.Process? That would be a real help as I > could then dispense with a top-level shell script that's now launching > web2py separately from my other processes. And would the setproctitle() > call give the desired result or would I need to push that down into > gluon.widget? > > Thanks! > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:55 PM Massimo Di Pierro < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Not clear what you mean by what web2py starts. depending on the web >> server there may be more than one process and the web server manages those. >> My guess is that you want it done at the level of the web2py server rocket. >> In which case I would copy web2py.py into main.py and edit the latter. >> >> On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 10:48:10 UTC-5, Michael Ellis wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm running web2py in conjunction with a suite of other, independent, >>> python processes. In development I often want to 'ps' or kill the entire >>> suite from the command line. I've found the Python setproctitle module >>> really useful for prepending a common label to all the process titles. >>> >>> In each process's __main__ code, I use something like the following: >>> >>> from setproctitle import setproctitle, getproctitle >>> _proclabel = "thisapp" >>> if not getproctitle().startswith(_proclabel): >>> setproctitle(_proclabel + ' ' + getproctitle()) >>> >>> >>> >>> This puts the label at the front, so I can do things like >>> >>> >>> ps ax | grep 'thisapp' >>> >>> 17162 s000 S 0:00.15 thisapp processes >>> >>> 17163 s000 S 0:00.02 thisapp simulation_service >>> >>> 17164 s000 S 0:00.06 thisapp statehouse_service >>> >>> 17167 s000 S 0:00.08 thisapp serial_interface_service >>> >>> 17168 s000 S 0:00.01 thisapp email_service >>> >>> 17169 s000 S 0:00.05 thisapp periodic_serial_query_service >>> >>> I want to also label the web2py process at startup. So far, the only >>> way I've found is to include the setproctitle code in an app's 0.py model >>> file and then have my startup script fetch the index page after web2py is >>> up and running. >>> >>> >>> It would be nicer to be able to put it in script that runs once as >>> web2py.py starts, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that without the >>> -R option which is recommended on for -S shell invocations of web2py. >>> >>> >>> I'd rather not hack web2py.py or one of the gluon modules. Is there a >>> better way? >>> >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/zdVUnKgm1zQ/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >
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