[lug] Running a PHP script as a daemon

[Jason Vallery]

Thanks all for your help.  I've got it working as suggested by Sean in
inittab.  I'm still having trouble with respawn.  Under some condition it
seems to restart correctly, but not always.

How exactly does respawn work?

-Jason



On 5/17/06, Bamm Visscher <bamm.visscher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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