[lug] Running a PHP script as a daemon

[Hugh Brown]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jason Vallery wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've done some googling on this topic and I have come up short, I thought I
> would throw it out here.  I have a php script that essentially connects a
> socket to a remote server and listens, when it receives data (XML) it
> processes it and stores it in the database.  Since this script needs to run
> all the time, what is the best way to handle that?  I'd like a solution that
> I can setup to start on system boot, and restart if for some reason PHP
> encounters a critical error and crashes (connection drop for example).
>
> The server is running CentOS 4.3 and  PHP 5.0.4.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> -Jason
>


Two thoughts, write an /etc/init.d/phpxmldaemonwhodad script that
starts/stops/restarts your process.  Set it to run out of /etc/inittab

Hugh