def daemonize(package, bin_loc, user):
    """Create crontab entries to run centinel every hour and
    autoupdate every day

    Parameters:

    package- name of the currently installed package (will be used for
        autoupdate). If this parameter is None, the autoupdater will
        not be used

    bin_loc- location of the centinel binary/script.

    Note: this works by creating temporary files, adding the content
    of the cron scripts to these temporary files, moving these files
    into the appropriate cron folders, and making these scripts
    executable

    Note: if the script already exists, this will delete it

    """

    path = "/etc/cron.hourly/centinel-" + user

    if user != "root":
        # create a script to run centinel every hour as the current user
        hourly = "".join(["#!/bin/bash\n",
                          "# cron job for centinel\n",
                          "su ", user, " -c '", bin_loc, " --sync'\n",
                          "su ", user, " -c '", bin_loc, "'\n",
                          "su ", user, " -c '", bin_loc, " --sync'\n"])
    else:
        # create a script to run centinel every hour as root
        hourly = "".join(["#!/bin/bash\n",
                          "# cron job for centinel\n",
                          bin_loc, " --sync\n",
                          bin_loc, "\n",
                          bin_loc, " --sync\n"])

    create_script_for_location(hourly, path)

    # create a script to get the client to autoupdate every day
    if package is None:
        return
    updater = "".join(["#!/bin/bash\n",
                      "# autoupdater for centinel\n"
                      "sudo pip install --upgrade ", package, "\n"])
    create_script_for_location(updater, "/etc/cron.daily/centinel-autoupdate")
    print "Successfully created cron jobs for user " + user
Create crontab entries to run centinel every hour and
    autoupdate every day

    Parameters:

    package- name of the currently installed package (will be used for
        autoupdate). If this parameter is None, the autoupdater will
        not be used

    bin_loc- location of the centinel binary/script.

    Note: this works by creating temporary files, adding the content
    of the cron scripts to these temporary files, moving these files
    into the appropriate cron folders, and making these scripts
    executable

    Note: if the script already exists, this will delete it