On 2013-12-09, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Fabrizio Di Carlo ><dicarlo.fabrizio at gmail.com> wrote: >> Try to use this >> http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python/ it >> allows you start/stop/restart the script using the following commands. >> >> python myscript.py start >> python myscript.py stop >> python myscript.py restart >> >> >> Source: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16420092/how-to-make-python-script-run-as-service > > > Yes, I've seen that question and site. I want to be able to control it > with the service command. The technique on this site makes the script > a daemon, but that does not make it controllable with service. > > Assuming the first line of your script is #!/usr/bin/env python and the script is executable, then you can invoke it like this: myscript start myscript stop myscript restart If you then place the script in /etc/init.d/, you have yourself a service. See the 'service' man page. -- Liam