uwsgi web2py daemonize background process

Question

I have web2py application with controller which is starting some background process like below:

def run_backproc():
    subprocess.call('setsid sh dosomething.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null &', shell=True)
    return True

The problem is when web2py is running with uwsgi app server, then the request doesn't return True while process is running and the GET request is finished unsuccessful. Without uwsgi it works right. Any idea what can be a problem? Thanks

How are you running it without uwsgi? Any clues in the uwsgi log? — Anthony, Dec 04 '15 at 17:45

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 07 '15 at 10:57

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Ok, I have solved it. Little bit more googling and I found, that I need add extra parameter into my web2py.ini. So I added line close-on-exec = true and it works :)

answered Dec 07 '15 at 10:57

jurkij

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note: you could also pass `close_fds=True` to `subprocess.call()` explicitly (it is default on Python 3 on POSIX). – jfs Dec 09 '15 at 14:35

uwsgi web2py daemonize background process

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