Configuration directives for daemonization.

daemonizing.textile

• processes (default 1) – number of processes to spawn (0 or None to autodetect cores)
• respawn (default True) – automatically re-spawn dead slaves in a multi-process environment
• cwd – change current working directory during daemonization
• detach (default None; autodetect) – detach from the terminal when daemonizing
• files
  • preserve (default []) – fileno() descriptors to avoid closing
  • stdin (default os.devnull)
  • stdout (default os.devnull)
  • stderr (default os.devnull)
• pid
  • name (default None) – filename to store master PID in
  • lock (default ".{0}") – PID lockfile template, e.g. "{0}.lock"
• security
  • uid – switch user before daemonizing
  • gid – switch group before daemonizing
  • core (default False) – allow the generation of core files
  • chroot – A directory to set the effective root of the subprocesses to.
  • umask (default 0)
• logging
  • file – log file when using simple configuration
  • level – default logging level for simple configuration
  • configuration – dict-based logging configuration (optional)

Logging Notes

In a multi-process environment (where the master process simply manages the sub-processes), the master process’s logger is configured using the directives above and the child processes log to the master process. This avoids log file contention.