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daemon-tools
Introduction
Collection of utility functions for implementing daemons with chicken. At the moment it provides an interface to openlog(3) and syslog(3) and a daemonize function to put the current process in the background.
Examples
Daemonize
To put the process in the background (fork, detach from the controlling terminal, create a new session, etc.) just invoke:
(daemon:ize)
Logging to syslog
You can optionally call daemon:openlog to set the process name and various options. See the openlog(3) manpage for details.
(daemon:openlog "my-daemon" daemon:LOG-PID daemon:LOG-USER)
To write a log message use:
(daemon:syslog daemon:LOG-WARNING "this is the ~a warning" "last")
Authors
Hans Bulfone <jsb@nil.at>
License
Copyright (c) 2007 Hans Bulfone <jsb@nil.at>
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Requirements
This egg doesn't depend on other eggs.
Daemonize
(daemon:ize)
This changes the current working directory to /, redirects stdin, stdout and stderr to /dev/null, fork()s and creates a new session.
Setting syslog options
(daemon:openlog ident option facility)
Calls openlog(3) with the given ident (a string identifying the process or #f), option and facility. See openlog(3) for details.
The following constants are available for option: daemon:LOG-CONS, daemon:LOG-NDELAY, daemon:LOG-NOWAIT, daemon:LOG-ODELAY, daemon:LOG-PID. They can be combined using bitwise-ior.
The following constants are available for facility: daemon:LOG-AUTHPRIV, daemon:LOG-CRON, daemon:LOG-DAEMON, daemon:LOG-KERN, daemon:LOG-LOCAL0, daemon:LOG-LOCAL1, daemon:LOG-LOCAL2, daemon:LOG-LOCAL3, daemon:LOG-LOCAL4, daemon:LOG-LOCAL5, daemon:LOG-LOCAL6, daemon:LOG-LOCAL7, daemon:LOG-LPR, daemon:LOG-MAIL, daemon:LOG-NEWS, daemon:LOG-SYSLOG, daemon:LOG-USER, daemon:LOG-UUCP.
As stated by openlog(3), the use of daemon:openlog is optional.
Logging messages to syslog
(daemon:syslog priority message args...)
Calls syslog(3) with the given priority and message (formatted using sprintf, so you can use ~a and ~s in message).
The following constants are available for priority: daemon:LOG-EMERG, daemon:LOG-ALERT, daemon:LOG-CRIT, daemon:LOG-ERR, daemon:LOG-WARNING, daemon:LOG-NOTICE, daemon:LOG-INFO, daemon:LOG-DEBUG.
Version history
1.0
- Initial release.