[lug] Running a PHP script as a daemon

[George Sexton]

Do you just need this to run something on a routine basis like every 10 
minutes?

If so, have you considered running it in Apache, and using cron to 
schedule wget calls?

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

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