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Any user in search of a daemon process control library and tool for Unix-based systems
About zdaemon
zdaemon is a Unix (Unix, Linux, Mac OS X) Python program that wraps commands to make them behave as proper daemons. zdaemon provides a script, zdaemon, that can be used to run other programs as POSIX (Unix) daemons. (Of course, it is only usable on POSIX-complient systems.) Using zdaemon requires specifying a number of options, which can be given in a configuration file, or as command-line options. It also accepts commands teling it what to do. Start a process as a daemon. Stop a running daemon process. Stop and then restart a program. Find out if the program is running. Send a signal to the daemon process. Reopen the transcript log. Commands can be given on a command line, or can be given using an interactive interpreter. We can specify a program name and command-line options in the program command. Note, however, that the command-line parsing is pretty primitive.
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Python Software Foundation
United States
pypi.org/project/zdaemon/
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