#!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys import subprocess # Detach from the controlling terminal and parent process by forking twice to daemonize ourselves, # then run the command passed as argv[1]. Send log data to argv[2]. pid = os.fork() if (pid == 0): os.setsid() pid = os.fork() if (pid != 0): os._exit(0) else: sys.exit() si = file(os.devnull, 'r') so = file(sys.argv[2], 'w') se = so # Replace those fds with our own os.dup2(si.fileno(), sys.stdin.fileno()) os.dup2(so.fileno(), sys.stdout.fileno()) os.dup2(se.fileno(), sys.stderr.fileno()) ret = subprocess.call(sys.argv[1], shell=True) os._exit(ret)