Creating a service/deamon ??

[Bryan]

i'm currently doing this using the windows task scheduler.  basically it's a
main that contains a forever loop.  in the task scheduler i just point it to
my python script and set the schedule to "At System Startup".   works great.

bryan


"Irmen de Jong" <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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> Thomas Weholt ( PRIVAT ) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to create a long-time running service/deamon that will monitor
some
> > email-accounts and do certain jobs on given intervals.
>
> Umm.. what's wrong with a regular python script called from a cron job?
> This does the trick on Linux, right?
> No need to have a long running server for this?
>
> --Irmen
>