Hah. whoops. Wrong URL I guess. Adding the URL at the last second bit me. :) I did write it to use python-daemon. 

> On Dec 24, 2013, at 2:17 PM, edmonds <notifications@github.com> wrote:
> 
> In sie-update:
> 
> > -        while True:
> > -            try:
> > -                do_update(net_funcs, opt.interface, opt.etcdir)
> > -            except UpdateFailed, e:
> > -                pass
> > -            except:
> > -                print >>sys.stderr, "Unhandled exception:"
> > -                sys.excepthook(*sys.exc_info())
> > -            time.sleep(random.gauss(opt.poll_time, opt.poll_time/10))
> > +        try:
> > +            import daemon
> > +            from daemon.pidlockfile import PIDLockFile
> > +        except ImportError:
> > +            print >>sys.stderr,
> > +                    "Daemon mode requires the 'daemon' python module from:"
> > +            print >>sys.stderr, "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/daemon"
> actually, is there any way we could do this with https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon instead? that module seems to be a lot more popular, and is actually in debian (in the "python-daemon" package). if we're targeting debian systems, it'll be a lot easier if all the dependencies can be satisfied from the main repository.
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