Service

Incomplete documentation - sorry!

Note

Neil - please put some data in technical/class_headings/Service.rst

methods and attributes

class lib_openmolar.server.daemon.service.Service

Bases: object

__init__()

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

daemonise(stdin, stdout, stderr)

Double forks the process in the background to avoid zombies, writes a PID.

is_running

true is the process already exists.

start_(stdin='/dev/null', stdout='/dev/null', stderr='/dev/null')

checks for a PIDfile, daemonises the process, writes the new PIDfile

status_()

Check the status of the process (running | not running)

stop_()

write_pidfile()