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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:38:48 +1000
Subject: Re: Restarting a daemon
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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. =A0I can restart the server manual=
ly
> with the command
>
> myserver restart
>
> This command starts a new myserver which first looks up the pid for the o=
ne
> that is running and sends it a terminate signal. =A0The 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