pezon / service

Easy implementation of Unix background services in Python

Python background services made easy

The Python service package makes it easy to write Unix services, i.e. background processes ("daemons") that are controlled by a foreground application (e.g. a console script):

from service import Service

class MyService(Service):
    def run(self):
        while True:
            do_work()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys

    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        sys.exit('Syntax: %s COMMAND' % sys.argv[0])

    cmd = sys.argv[1].lower()
    service = MyService('my_service', pid_dir='/tmp')

    if cmd == 'start':
        service.start()
    elif cmd == 'stop':
        service.stop()
    elif cmd == 'status':
        if service.is_running():
            print "Service is running."
        else:
            print "Service is not running."
    else:
        sys.exit('Unknown command "%s".' % cmd)

For details, please see the documentation.

Installation

Installation is easy via pip:

pip install service