Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'context': 0.04; 'socket': 0.04; 'library,': 0.05; 'debugging.': 0.07; 'python': 0.08; 'alter': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'library': 0.13; 'debugger.': 0.16; 'nature,': 0.16; 'nevertheless': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'appears': 0.19; "doesn't": 0.22; 'wrote': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'code': 0.25; "i'm": 0.26; 'remote': 0.28; 'bit': 0.28; 'problem': 0.29; 'pm,': 0.29; 'url:)': 0.29; 'anyone': 0.31; "i've": 0.31; 'skip:l 30': 0.32; 'yet': 0.32; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.33; 'actually': 0.33; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'things': 0.34; 'surprised': 0.34; 'similar': 0.36; 'received:au': 0.36; 'interface.': 0.37; 'but': 0.37; 'run': 0.37; 'list,': 0.37; 'another': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'couple': 0.38; 'url:org': 0.39; 'else': 0.39; "couldn't": 0.39; 'tool': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'personal': 0.60; 'managing': 0.61; 'kind': 0.61; 'happen': 0.61; 'order': 0.62; 'dear': 0.64; 'share': 0.66; 'natural': 0.66; 'ways,': 0.67; '12:43': 0.84; 'ad- hoc': 0.84; 'commands.': 0.84; 'fredrik': 0.84; 'subject:management': 0.84; 'wheel': 0.84; 'lately,': 0.91; 'mine,': 0.91; 'received:110': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Lie Ryan Subject: Re: Daemon management Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:23:05 +1100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 110-175-240-90.static.tpgi.com.au User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1325006608 news.xs4all.nl 6952 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:37391 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:18030 On 12/27/2011 12:43 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Dear list, > > Lately, I've had a personal itch to scratch, in that I run a couple of > Python programs as daemons, and sometimes want to inspect or alter them > in ad-hoc ways, or other times need to do things to them that are less > ad-hoc in nature, but nevertheless lack a natural user interface. > > In order to solve that problem, I wrote a small library to allow the > daemon to simply listen to some socket and accept arbitrary, but easily > definable, commands. It also provides a "remote REPL" to allow me to run > arbitrary Python code interactively in the context of the daemon. > > I was actually a bit surprised that I couldn't find any obvious existing > solution to the problem, so I'm writing this message in order to share > mine, just in case anyone else would happen to have the same problem as > I had and doesn't want to reinvent the wheel yet again: This is possible through the use of a debugger. I've never used it, but I heard good thing of winpdb which has remote debugging. (http://winpdb.org/) Another tool that I've never used is rconsole, part of rfoo library, which appears to be similar to pdm; it is also intended for the same kind of problem, managing long-running-processes/daemons.