On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Tommy Pham <tommyhp2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have a script running as daemon on Linux/Unix (variants) as > part > of your PHP application? If so, what are you using to schedule the script > to run? cron? > cron is one way to do it for scripts you schedule. for real daemon processes though ive recently deployed a php script on gentoo by leveraging the init scripts. essentially my program runs a while(true) and uses pcntl_fork() to create worker children. the parent process listens for signals which are sent by an init script. theres also a really nice start-stop-daemon function in the init script library which backgrounds the process for me and creates a pid lockfile. really slick. now i have an interface to my script like /etc/init.d/php-service start etc. plus it ties right into the runlevel scripts, i just run rc-update add php-service default and the script will start when the box hits runlevel 3! -nathan
