[haoscar]

hi all,
Well i was writing a program which i needed to be a daemon. Iwas pickling objects inot and out of a file in that program. After I have made that program a daemon by the two fork method, the pickle doesnt seem to work. I write to a file (as it is a daemon,i dont "echo")before and after the pickle command,only the line before the pickle gets written. Have any of you had this probelm.It doesnt give any errors.
I have pasted the code also,and the file to read from.Please help me.

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import os
import sys

def read(objlist):
   flog = file("logfile","a")
    try:
        fp = file('newone','r')
    except IOError:
        flog.write('hi In read Couldn\'t open %s for reading' %('newone'))
        sys.exit()
    else:
        flog.write('new one opened in read mode\n')
    i=0
    flag=0
    templist = []
    objlist = cPickle.load(fp)
    flog.write('About to picle the items out')
    flog.write(str(len(objlist)))
    flog.close()

def again_daemon():
    try:
        pid = os.fork()
        if pid > 0:
            #---first parent
            sys.exit(0)
    except OSError,e:
        print >>sys.stderr, "fork #1 failed %d (%s)" % (e.errno,e.strerror)
        sys.exit(1)
    #---make a clean process---
    os.chdir('/')
    os.setsid()
    os.umask(000)
    child_in =open('/dev/null','r')
    child_out=open('/dev/null','w')
    os.dup2(child_in.fileno(), sys.stdin.fileno())
    os.dup2(child_out.fileno(), sys.stdout.fileno())
    os.dup2(child_out.fileno(), sys.stderr.fileno())
    #---second fork---
    try:
        pid = os.fork()
        if pid > 0:
            #---second parent---
            sys.exit(0)
    except OSError, e:
        print >>sys.stderr, "fork #2 failed %d (%s)" % (e.errno,e.strerror)
        sys.exit(1)
    return (0)

if __name__ == "__main__":
 objlist =[]
 retcode = again_daemon()
 read(objlist)

Here is the file 'newone' to read from.
(lp1
(i__main__
entry
p2
(dp3
S'remark'
p4
S'none'
sS'title'
p5
S'Meet Devshed.'
sS'day'
p6
I16
sS'time'
p7
S'9 am'

[Grim Archon]

Please use a code tags and repost your question. Someone might be able to help.

[haoscar]

hi had pasted the code with spacing corretcly.But dont know why it came without indentation.

[Theeggman]

When you post code there are some code tags that make the code easier fore people to read. Look at the buttons right above the text field where you post and you'll find it.

[Grim Archon]

There is a Sticky message at the top of the forum that might be useful

[pyton]

Click the "#" wrap (code) icon and paste your codes

[netytan]

I've done this for you this time but in future could you please used them, this tread explains how to ask a question and the importance of using code tags with Python.

It also looks like you have an indentation error on the first line in read(). You seem to be using several different indentation levels all over the place i.e. some lines use 2 spaces and others 4 etc.

four spaces is the standard indentation level so i would probably use that.

Can i also sugest that you choose to use either file() or open() and not both for consistancy reasons . Also i would probably replace

print >> sys.stderr, 'error message'
sys.exit(1)

with

raise SystemExit, 'error message'

which is equivelent to calling sys.exit('error message') but makes more sence to me at least. Just a few sugestions to get you stated .

Later,

Mark.