Question

I have a python based application which works like a feed aggregator and needs to be part of init.d script so that I could control the execution with start/stop/restart options. Also I want the init.d script to be setup as a cron job (I have example here).

I found one sample here http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/daemon

(PS. I don’t want the script to be written in python itself).

Answer 1

You could consider writing a Upstart task for operating systems which use Upstart.

Example:

# Start zeya
#

description     "Start Zeya music server"

start on startup

task
exec python /home/r00t/code-hacking/serve-music/zeya/src/zeya/zeya.py
--path=/home/r00t/Music

Add this to a file, say ‘zeya.conf’ in /etc/init

and then you can control the job using ‘initctl’. For eg:

initctl status zeya
initctl stop zeya