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Re: Restarting a daemon

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Date 2011-04-27 05:38 +1000
Subject Re: Restarting a daemon
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.865.1303846731.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jeffrey Barish
<jeff_barish@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Not exactly a Python question, but I thought I would start here.
>
> I have a server that runs as a daemon.  I can restart the server manually
> with the command
>
> myserver restart
>
> This command starts a new myserver which first looks up the pid for the one
> that is running and sends it a terminate signal.  The new one then
> daemonizes itself.

What job manager do you have? Can you set up a script in /etc/init.d
or /etc/init and then use that to restart the daemon? Upstart scripts
can be managed with the 'initctl' command, for instance.

Chris Angelico

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Re: Restarting a daemon Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 05:38 +1000

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