Top "Daemon" questions

A daemon is a process or program that runs in the background (i.e. requiring no user interaction).

How do I run a node.js app as a background service?

Since this post has gotten a lot of attention over the years, I've listed the top solutions per platform at …

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How to start a background process in Python?

I'm trying to port a shell script to the much more readable python version. The original shell script starts several …

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How do you create a daemon in Python?

Searching on Google reveals x2 code snippets. The first result is to this code recipe which has a lot of …

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Docker command can't connect to Docker daemon

I want to make a move to Docker, so I've just started to mess around with it. I've installed Docker …

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Android Studio Gradle project "Unable to start the daemon process /initialization of VM"

Version of Android Studio (Beta) 0.8.4 OS version: Windows 8 Java JRE/JDK version: 1.8.0_11 Error:Unable to start the daemon process. This …

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Creating a daemon in Linux

In Linux I want to add a daemon that cannot be stopped and which monitors filesystem changes. If any changes …

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Best way to make a shell script daemon?

I'm wondering if there is a better way to make a daemon that waits for something using only sh than: #! /…

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Getting pids from ps -ef |grep keyword

I want to use ps -ef | grep "keyword" to determine the pid of a daemon process (there is a unique …

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How to stop docker under Linux

My version of OS Ubuntu 16.04. I want to stop docker, so I run in the terminal: sudo systemctl stop docker …

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How to process SIGTERM signal gracefully?

Let's assume we have such a trivial daemon written in python: def mainloop(): while True: # 1. do # 2. some # 3. important # 4. job # 5. sleep …

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