Fixed the background options.

basic functionality should work now. Need to figure out
how to redirect the logs to a file

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/server/config.py b/server/config.py
index f693468..755477b 100644
--- a/server/config.py
+++ b/server/config.py
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ class AliasConfigParser(ConfigParser.RawConfigParser):
         self.host = self.get("component", "host")
         self.secret = self.get("component", "secret")
         self.port = self.getint("component", "port")
-        self.background = self.get("component", "background")
+        self.background = self.getboolean("component", "background")
 
 config = AliasConfigParser()
diff --git a/server/server.py b/server/server.py
index 3c80da8..7b39330 100755
--- a/server/server.py
+++ b/server/server.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream import XMLStream
 from user import UserHandler
 from config import filename, config
 import daemon
-
+from lockfile.pidlockfile import PIDLockFile
 
 class ObjectComponent(ComponentXMPP):
 
@@ -91,8 +91,10 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         filename = args.config
         logging.basicConfig(level = args.debug)
         config.read(filename)
-
-with daemon.DaemonContext(detach_process=True,pid="alias_server.pid"):
+        
+with daemon.DaemonContext(detach_process = config.background,
+                          pidfile = PIDLockFile('alias.pid'),
+                          working_directory = '.'):
     component = ObjectComponent(config.name, config.secret,
                                 config.host, config.port,
                                 config.root)