您可以在脚本中或像这样在另一个脚本中作为子进程运行进程

subprocess.Popen(arguments, close_fds=True, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)

或者使用现成的工具

https://github.com/megashchik/d-handler

你有两个选择。

Make a proper cron job that calls your script. Cron is a common name for a GNU/Linux daemon that periodically launches scripts according to a schedule you set. You add your script into a crontab or place a symlink to it into a special directory and the daemon handles the job of launching it in the background. You can read more at Wikipedia. There is a variety of different cron daemons, but your GNU/Linux system should have it already installed. Use some kind of python approach (a library, for example) for your script to be able to daemonize itself. Yes, it will require a simple event loop (where your events are timer triggering, possibly, provided by sleep function).

我不建议你选择2。，因为您实际上是在重复cron功能。Linux系统范例是让多个简单工具交互并解决您的问题。除非有其他原因需要创建守护进程(除了定期触发之外)，否则选择其他方法。

此外，如果你使用daemonize进行循环并且发生了崩溃，那么没有人会在那之后检查邮件(正如Ivan Nevostruev在回答的评论中指出的那样)。而如果脚本作为cron作业添加，它将再次触发。

你应该使用python-daemon库，它会处理所有的事情。

从PyPI:库实现一个行为良好的Unix守护进程。

我推荐这个解决方案。您需要继承和重写方法运行。

import sys
import os
from signal import SIGTERM
from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod



class Daemon(object):
    __metaclass__ = ABCMeta


    def __init__(self, pidfile):
        self._pidfile = pidfile


    @abstractmethod
    def run(self):
        pass


    def _daemonize(self):
        # decouple threads
        pid = os.fork()

        # stop first thread
        if pid > 0:
            sys.exit(0)

        # write pid into a pidfile
        with open(self._pidfile, 'w') as f:
            print >> f, os.getpid()


    def start(self):
        # if daemon is started throw an error
        if os.path.exists(self._pidfile):
            raise Exception("Daemon is already started")

        # create and switch to daemon thread
        self._daemonize()

        # run the body of the daemon
        self.run()


    def stop(self):
        # check the pidfile existing
        if os.path.exists(self._pidfile):
            # read pid from the file
            with open(self._pidfile, 'r') as f:
                pid = int(f.read().strip())

            # remove the pidfile
            os.remove(self._pidfile)

            # kill daemon
            os.kill(pid, SIGTERM)

        else:
            raise Exception("Daemon is not started")


    def restart(self):
        self.stop()
        self.start()

要创建一些像service一样运行的东西，你可以使用这个东西:

你必须做的第一件事是安装水泥框架: 水泥框架是一个CLI框架，您可以在其上部署应用程序。

app命令行界面:

interface.py

 from cement.core.foundation import CementApp
 from cement.core.controller import CementBaseController, expose
 from YourApp import yourApp

 class Meta:
    label = 'base'
    description = "your application description"
    arguments = [
        (['-r' , '--run'],
          dict(action='store_true', help='Run your application')),
        (['-v', '--version'],
          dict(action='version', version="Your app version")),
        ]
        (['-s', '--stop'],
          dict(action='store_true', help="Stop your application")),
        ]

    @expose(hide=True)
    def default(self):
        if self.app.pargs.run:
            #Start to running the your app from there !
            YourApp.yourApp()
        if self.app.pargs.stop:
            #Stop your application
            YourApp.yourApp.stop()

 class App(CementApp):
       class Meta:
       label = 'Uptime'
       base_controller = 'base'
       handlers = [MyBaseController]

 with App() as app:
       app.run()

YourApp.py类:

 import threading

 class yourApp:
     def __init__:
        self.loger = log_exception.exception_loger()
        thread = threading.Thread(target=self.start, args=())
        thread.daemon = True
        thread.start()

     def start(self):
        #Do every thing you want
        pass
     def stop(self):
        #Do some things to stop your application

请记住，你的应用程序必须运行在一个线程作为守护进程

要运行应用程序，只需在命令行中这样做

Python interface.py——help

首先，仔细研究邮件别名。邮件别名将在邮件系统内完成此任务，而无需您在守护进程或服务或任何类似的东西上瞎忙活。

您可以编写一个简单的脚本，每次将邮件消息发送到特定邮箱时，sendmail都会执行该脚本。

参见http://www.feep.net/sendmail/tutorial/intro/aliases.html

如果您真的想编写一个不必要的复杂服务器，您可以这样做。

nohup python myscript.py &

这就够了。您的脚本只是循环和休眠。

import time
def do_the_work():
    # one round of polling -- checking email, whatever.
while True:
    time.sleep( 600 ) # 10 min.
    try:
        do_the_work()
    except:
        pass