[lug] Running a PHP script as a daemon

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:09:06AM -0600, Jason Vallery wrote:
>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).

This is what /etc/inittab is for.  See "man 5 inittab" for more
information.  I usually wrap my long-running scripts in a shell script
like:

   path/to/daemon 2>&1 | logger -t name_of_daemon.run

So that I get errors logged.

Thanks,
Sean
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