[Zope-dev] [PATCH] Forking daemon in debug mode, and new start scripts

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:49:34 -0500


> I understand zdaemon is going away soon, but here's a small patch to
> Daemon.py to fork if it finds an EVENT_LOG_FILE.

Why do you want that?  Logging to a file in the background is a useful
feature.

[snip -- thanks for the scripts]

> The non-detaching daemon, however, is just plain annoying.  On Unix
> you can always tail the logfile for the same effect.

I do not understand this remark.  Your patch *prevents* the daemon
from detaching.  So you find your own patch annoying?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)