improved error handling of the server start script

bin/CryptoBoxWebserver

@@ -89,11 +89,15 @@ def fork_to_background():
 
 
 def close_open_files():
-	"""this is only necessary if we want to go into background"""
+	"""this is only necessary if we want to go into background
+	we will only close stdin, stdout and stderr
+	"""
 	import resource		# Resource usage information.
-	maxfd = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[1]
-	if (maxfd == resource.RLIM_INFINITY):
-		maxfd = 1024
+	## use the following lines to close all open files (including the log file)
+	# maxfd = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)[1]
+	# if (maxfd == resource.RLIM_INFINITY):
+	#	maxfd = 1024
+	maxfd = 2
 	for fd in range(0, maxfd):
 		try:
 			os.close(fd)
@@ -160,14 +164,12 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 	options = parseOptions()
 	## run the webserver as a daemon process
 	if options.background: fork_to_background()
-	## close open files to allow background execution
-	if options.background: close_open_files()
 	## write pid file
 	write_pid_file(options.pidfile)
-	## TODO: if we close the open files _after_ initialization, then we also close
-	## the log out - we have to figure something out here ...
 	## initialize the webserver class (before forking to get some error messages)
 	cbw = CryptoBoxWebserver(options)
+	## close open files to allow background execution
+	if options.background: close_open_files()
 	## start the webserver
 	try:
 		cbw.start()

bin/cryptobox.conf

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Details	= ./cryptobox.log
 Stylesheet = /cryptobox-misc/cryptobox.css
 
 # default language
-Language = de
+Languages = de, en
 
 
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