Re: redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null
Date	2016-05-08 11:21 +1000
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Jim Dodgen <jim@dodgen.us> writes:

> I'm have problems redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null in a
> program that does a fork and exec.

You may be interested in the ‘python-daemon’ library
<URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/>. It takes care of all
the fiddly bits to turn your program into a well-behaved Unix daemon.

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Ben Finney

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Re: redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-05-08 11:21 +1000

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