python-daemon

I have written a module in Python and want it to run continuously once started and need to stop it when I need to update other modules. I will likely be using monit to restart it, if module has crashed or is otherwise not running. I was going through different techniques like Daemon , Upstart and many others. Which is the best way to go so that I use that approach through out my all new modules to keep running them forever? From your mention of Upstart I will assume that this question is for a service being run on an Ubuntu server. On an Ubuntu server an upstart job is really the simplest and

I have a simple Python script working as a daemon. I am trying to create systemd script to be able to start this script during startup. Current systemd script: [Unit] Description=Text After=syslog.target [Service] Type=forking User=node Group=node WorkingDirectory=/home/node/Node/ PIDFile=/var/run/zebra.pid ExecStart=/home/node/Node/node.py [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target node.py: if __name__ == '__main__': with daemon.DaemonContext(): check = Node() check.run() run contains while True loop. I try to run this service with systemctl start zebra-node.service . Unfortunately service never