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+# #!/usr/bin/python
+
+import fcntl
+import os
+import pwd
+import grp
+import sys
+import signal
+import resource
+import logging
+import atexit
+from logging import handlers
+
+
+class Daemonize(object):
+    """ Daemonize object
+    Object constructor expects three arguments:
+    - app: contains the application name which will be sent to syslog.
+    - pid: path to the pidfile.
+    - action: your custom function which will be executed after daemonization.
+    - keep_fds: optional list of fds which should not be closed.
+    - auto_close_fds: optional parameter to not close opened fds.
+    - privileged_action: action that will be executed before drop privileges if user or
+                         group parameter is provided.
+                         If you want to transfer anything from privileged_action to action, such as
+                         opened privileged file descriptor, you should return it from
+                         privileged_action function and catch it inside action function.
+    - user: drop privileges to this user if provided.
+    - group: drop privileges to this group if provided.
+    - verbose: send debug messages to logger if provided.
+    - logger: use this logger object instead of creating new one, if provided.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, app, pid, action, keep_fds=None, auto_close_fds=True, privileged_action=None, user=None, group=None, verbose=False, logger=None):
+        self.app = app
+        self.pid = pid
+        self.action = action
+        self.keep_fds = keep_fds or []
+        self.privileged_action = privileged_action or (lambda: ())
+        self.user = user
+        self.group = group
+        self.logger = logger
+        self.verbose = verbose
+        self.auto_close_fds = auto_close_fds
+
+    def sigterm(self, signum, frame):
+        """ sigterm method
+        These actions will be done after SIGTERM.
+        """
+        self.logger.warn("Caught signal %s. Stopping daemon." % signum)
+        os.remove(self.pid)
+        sys.exit(0)
+
+    def exit(self):
+        """ exit method
+        Cleanup pid file at exit.
+        """
+        self.logger.warn("Stopping daemon.")
+        os.remove(self.pid)
+        sys.exit(0)
+
+    def start(self):
+        """ start method
+        Main daemonization process.
+        """
+        # If pidfile already exists, we should read pid from there; to overwrite it, if locking
+        # will fail, because locking attempt somehow purges the file contents.
+        if os.path.isfile(self.pid):
+            with open(self.pid, "r") as old_pidfile:
+                old_pid = old_pidfile.read()
+        # Create a lockfile so that only one instance of this daemon is running at any time.
+        try:
+            lockfile = open(self.pid, "w")
+        except IOError:
+            print("Unable to create the pidfile.")
+            sys.exit(1)
+        try:
+            # Try to get an exclusive lock on the file. This will fail if another process has the file
+            # locked.
+            fcntl.flock(lockfile, fcntl.LOCK_EX | fcntl.LOCK_NB)
+        except IOError:
+            print("Unable to lock on the pidfile.")
+            # We need to overwrite the pidfile if we got here.
+            with open(self.pid, "w") as pidfile:
+                pidfile.write(old_pid)
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+        # Fork, creating a new process for the child.
+        process_id = os.fork()
+        if process_id < 0:
+            # Fork error. Exit badly.
+            sys.exit(1)
+        elif process_id != 0:
+            # This is the parent process. Exit.
+            sys.exit(0)
+        # This is the child process. Continue.
+
+        # Stop listening for signals that the parent process receives.
+        # This is done by getting a new process id.
+        # setpgrp() is an alternative to setsid().
+        # setsid puts the process in a new parent group and detaches its controlling terminal.
+        process_id = os.setsid()
+        if process_id == -1:
+            # Uh oh, there was a problem.
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+        # Add lockfile to self.keep_fds.
+        self.keep_fds.append(lockfile.fileno())
+
+        # Close all file descriptors, except the ones mentioned in self.keep_fds.
+        devnull = "/dev/null"
+        if hasattr(os, "devnull"):
+            # Python has set os.devnull on this system, use it instead as it might be different
+            # than /dev/null.
+            devnull = os.devnull
+
+        if self.auto_close_fds:
+            for fd in range(3, resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[0]):
+                if fd not in self.keep_fds:
+                    try:
+                        os.close(fd)
+                    except OSError:
+                        pass
+
+        devnull_fd = os.open(devnull, os.O_RDWR)
+        os.dup2(devnull_fd, 0)
+        os.dup2(devnull_fd, 1)
+        os.dup2(devnull_fd, 2)
+
+        if self.logger is None:
+            # Initialize logging.
+            self.logger = logging.getLogger(self.app)
+            self.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+            # Display log messages only on defined handlers.
+            self.logger.propagate = False
+
+            # Initialize syslog.
+            # It will correctly work on OS X, Linux and FreeBSD.
+            if sys.platform == "darwin":
+                syslog_address = "/var/run/syslog"
+            else:
+                syslog_address = "/dev/log"
+
+            # We will continue with syslog initialization only if actually have such capabilities
+            # on the machine we are running this.
+            if os.path.isfile(syslog_address):
+                syslog = handlers.SysLogHandler(syslog_address)
+                if self.verbose:
+                    syslog.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+                else:
+                    syslog.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+                # Try to mimic to normal syslog messages.
+                formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s %(name)s: %(message)s",
+                                              "%b %e %H:%M:%S")
+                syslog.setFormatter(formatter)
+
+                self.logger.addHandler(syslog)
+
+        # Set umask to default to safe file permissions when running as a root daemon. 027 is an
+        # octal number which we are typing as 0o27 for Python3 compatibility.
+        os.umask(0o27)
+
+        # Change to a known directory. If this isn't done, starting a daemon in a subdirectory that
+        # needs to be deleted results in "directory busy" errors.
+        os.chdir("/")
+
+        # Execute privileged action
+        privileged_action_result = self.privileged_action()
+        if not privileged_action_result:
+            privileged_action_result = []
+
+        # Change gid
+        if self.group:
+            try:
+                gid = grp.getgrnam(self.group).gr_gid
+            except KeyError:
+                self.logger.error("Group {0} not found".format(self.group))
+                sys.exit(1)
+            try:
+                os.setgid(gid)
+            except OSError:
+                self.logger.error("Unable to change gid.")
+                sys.exit(1)
+
+        # Change uid
+        if self.user:
+            try:
+                uid = pwd.getpwnam(self.user).pw_uid
+            except KeyError:
+                self.logger.error("User {0} not found.".format(self.user))
+                sys.exit(1)
+            try:
+                os.setuid(uid)
+            except OSError:
+                self.logger.error("Unable to change uid.")
+                sys.exit(1)
+
+        try:
+            lockfile.write("%s" % (os.getpid()))
+            lockfile.flush()
+        except IOError:
+            self.logger.error("Unable to write pid to the pidfile.")
+            print("Unable to write pid to the pidfile.")
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+        # Set custom action on SIGTERM.
+        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self.sigterm)
+        atexit.register(self.exit)
+
+        self.logger.warn("Starting daemon.")
+
+        self.action(*privileged_action_result)