Top "Daemon" questions

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

Run a python script with supervisor

I copied from here to run my Python code as a daemon. For extra uptime. I thought it would be …

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Running process in background after closing terminal

I am trying to run a script in the background even after closing the terminal. I have searched and searched …

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Making Mac OSX launchctl launch a process as root on startup

My question is how to make a MacOSX daemon process using launchd start with root privileges automatically after a reboot? …

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Daemonizing an executable in ansible

I am trying to create a task in ansible which executes a shell command to run an executable in daemon …

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Call a python subprocess as daemon and exit

I'm using a pair of python programs, one of which should call the second. But this should be done in …

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Tool for creating a Java daemon service on Linux

What is the best way to create a java application that can be run using ‘service’ on Linux? I was …

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Daemonizing python's BaseHTTPServer

I am working on a daemon where I need to embed a HTTP server. I am attempting to do it …

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Daemon threads scheduled on an ExecutorService; explain why this is bad form

I'm comfortable with the idea of orderly shutdown on threads scheduled with an ExectuorService; that is to say, calling shutdown …

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How do you use python-daemon the way that it's documentation dictates?

I'm trying to make a daemon in python and I've come across the python-daemon package. The interesting thing about it …

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Run resque in background

I have a working rails app with a resque queue system which works very well. However, I lack a good …

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