Changes cobbler_syslogd to cobblerd, and this new daemon now offers koan

info over XMLRPC, allowing koan to stop needing to grok YAML.  Older
versions of koan will remain compatible over standard http://.

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/cobblerd b/scripts/cobblerd
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+"""
+Wrapper for cobbler's remote syslog watching daemon.
+
+Copyright 2006, Red Hat, Inc
+Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@redhat.com>
+
+This software may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU
+general public license.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import os
+import cobbler.cobblerd as app
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    #############################################
+    # daemonizing code:  http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66012
+    try: 
+        pid = os.fork() 
+        if pid > 0:
+            # exit first parent
+            sys.exit(0) 
+    except OSError, e: 
+        print >>sys.stderr, "fork #1 failed: %d (%s)" % (e.errno, e.strerror) 
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    # decouple from parent environment
+    os.chdir("/") 
+    os.setsid() 
+    os.umask(0) 
+
+    # do second fork
+    try: 
+        pid = os.fork() 
+        if pid > 0:
+            # print "Daemon PID %d" % pid 
+            sys.exit(0) 
+    except OSError, e: 
+        print >>sys.stderr, "fork #2 failed: %d (%s)" % (e.errno, e.strerror) 
+        sys.exit(1) 
+
+    #################
+
+    app.main()
+