Daemonic

Context manager to eliminate daemonizing boilerplate code.

Installation

Install with pip install daemonic.

Use

Daemonic is pretty easy to use as a context manager:

with daemonic.daemon(
        pidfile='/var/run/mydaemon.pid',
        stdout=open('/var/log/mydaemon.log', 'a')):
    # your daemon code here

daemonic takes care of:

• Forking twice to detach from the current terminal/process
• Changing to a different working directory
• Managing user file creation permissions (umask)
• Redirecting standard input/output/error
• Creating a locked PID file

License

MIT license.