Re: [Fab-user] running a process that doesn't return

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Friday 10 Jun 2011 13:57:21 Lee Connell wrote:
> Jeff, i am using an init script to start and stop my python program.
> I setup my python app to redirect stdout to a log file, this works
> fine when i run the python app directly.  when i execute the app from
> a bash script it does not get redirected to my log file, why would
> that be? even if I don't use start-stop-daemon and just run it like
> this: /app/python/pyrest.py & it doesn't work
...
>         start-stop-daemon --start --background --chdir $APP_CWD
> --pidfile $APP_PID --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $APP_OPTS

I don't think start-stop-daemon actually does any redirecting.  I can't 
remember the details but just google 'python daemon' to check what your 
program should do, I think it's something like close fds and fork.

Or you could try if adding &> /path/to/logfile < /dev/null would work around 
it.


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