# $Id$ # # Copyright (C) 2012 Internet Systems Consortium ("ISC") # # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any # purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above # copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH # REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY # AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, # INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM # LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. # # Some code borrowed from # http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python/ # # (which was explicitly placed in public domain by its author), and from # # /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/daemon.c # # (the libc implementation of daemon(3) on FreeBSD), so: # # Portions copyright (c) 1990, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors # may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software # without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE # ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE # FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL # DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS # OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) # HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT # LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY # OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF # SUCH DAMAGE. """ Make a normal program into a "daemon", like the 4.4BSD daemon(3) call. This doesn't quite follow either the 4.4BSD call or the Python 3.x library, because it was written to fit into an existing package and I didn't want to drag in yet another external library just for this. """ import os import sys import atexit import signal import logging logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Does default_pid_directory need to be autoconf-configurable? ## @var default_pid_directory # Default directory to which to write process ID files. default_pid_directory = "/var/run/rpki" ## @var pid_filename # Configurable filename to which to write process ID file. # pidfile argument to daemon() overrides this. pid_filename = None def daemon(nochdir = False, noclose = False, pidfile = None): """ Make this program become a daemon, like 4.4BSD daemon(3), and write its pid out to a file with cleanup on exit. """ if pidfile is None: if pid_filename is None: prog = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))[0] pidfile = os.path.join(default_pid_directory, "%s.pid" % prog) else: pidfile = pid_filename old_sighup_action = signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, signal.SIG_IGN) try: pid = os.fork() except OSError, e: logging.fatal("fork() failed: %d (%s)", e.errno, e.strerror) sys.exit(1) else: if pid > 0: os._exit(0) # pylint: disable=W0212 if not nochdir: os.chdir("/") os.setsid() if not noclose: sys.stdout.flush() sys.stderr.flush() fd = os.open(os.devnull, os.O_RDWR) os.dup2(fd, 0) os.dup2(fd, 1) os.dup2(fd, 2) if fd > 2: os.close(fd) signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, old_sighup_action) def delete_pid_file(): try: os.unlink(pidfile) except OSError: pass atexit.register(delete_pid_file) try: f = open(pidfile, "w") f.write("%d\n" % os.getpid()) f.close() except IOError, e: logger.warning("Couldn't write PID file %s: %s", pidfile, e.strerror)