nohup would work in some ways, but that's not a real daemon because the process will have tty, in a session and has a process group. I like to have a real daemon. On Feb 2, 2008 5:25 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > js wrote: > > > I was trying to write a script in PHP that takes a program name > > as an argument and invoke it as a daemon. > > PHP provides fork(pcntl_fork), setsid(posix_setsid) and umask, > > so it was easy. > > However, I couldn't find a way to redirect STDERR a file. > > I like to have the daemon write its log to its own logfile, like > > apache and mysql do. > > I think "nohup <program> 2>errorlog" will do what you're after. > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
