how do you return an exit code with out exiting

[Matthew Thorley]

thanks thats perfect!

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-05-23, Matthew Thorley <ruach at chpc.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wrote a simple python program that scrapes a web page every
>>30 secons and dumps the result in a data base. I want to use
>>my linux distros build in init tools to run the script in the
>>back ground as a daemon. The problem is when I call the daemon
>>script to background the program I wrote it just hangs,
>>waiting for my program to exit 1 or 0. My program never does
>>exits because its looping every 30 seconds.
>>
>>Is there a way I can pass an exit value with out actualy exiting?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> 
>>or is there are better way to do this?
> 
> 
> Yes.  
> 
> To be a well-behavied daemon, you need to do the things
> described in this howto:
> 
>   http://www.linuxprofilm.com/articles/linux-daemon-howto.html
> 
> Here are a couple references on how to do this in Python:
> 
>   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731
>   http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/
>