Tag: daemon

In Debian, where in the filesystem would a daemon provide dynamic measurement results?

For a diploma thesis, I am developing a Linux daemon that runs on Debian and is also Debian-packaged for easy administration. It reads various measurement results via I²C. The results shall be shown on a website. In Debian, where in the filesystem would a daemon output such measurement data to be updated regularly and read from other applications or the

Docker containers as Linux services?

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I just created a secure Docker Registry and ran it on a remote VM (using docker run …). I then ran docker ps and saw that it is in fact running. I exited the machine and then SSHed back in. Again, I ran docker ps and verified it “survived” me exiting the SSH session. This has me wondering: do Docker

Daemonize a perl script at startup Linux

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I have a custom version of CENTOS that I need to run a perl script as a daemon in at all times. To do this I want to get it to run on startup as a daemon. When the machine is on I can daemonize the script with the command And this works fine. So I have an rc1 script

Tornado Python as daemon

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I have my code written with tornado and I want to make it work pretty much like apache or nginx, that is It must keep listening to the port even when I close the shell. It must start automatically on system restart I have tried nohup command to make it work even when I close the shell. It works. But

Linux daemonize

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I am writing a Linux daemon . I found two ways to do it. Daemonize your process by calling fork() and setting sid. Running your program with &. Which is the right way to do it? Answer From http://www.steve.org.uk/Reference/Unix/faq_2.html#SEC16 Here are the steps to become a daemon: fork() so the parent can exit, this returns control to the command line