Can I use uWSGI emperor to manage a background process?

Question

I'm using uWSGI in emperor mode to run a number of web applications. Now I want to create a new application purely for housekeeping purposes - it will be continually monitoring a backend database for certain conditions.

I'm on Ubuntu, so I could manage this process using upstart , but I like the benefits of uWSGI - automatic code reloading and so on.

So is it possible to have a uWSGI vassal that isn't a WSGI application? And if so, what would my configuration .ini file have to contain?

Answer 1

One of the directives described here: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/AttachingDaemons.html

are enough to spawn a vassal. You will end with a master managing your daemon/daemons.

The same is true for cron directives too