[lug] Running a PHP script as a daemon

[Bamm Visscher]

I can't say I've done PHP but I assume it offers some type of fork().
The common way to daemonize an app in any language is to fork a child
and the have the parent exit cleanly afterwards.

Bammkkkk


On 5/17/06, Jason Vallery <jason at vallery.net> 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
>
>
>
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