Re: Daemonising to continue asynchronously

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:45:34 -0700, fletch wrote:
>> For anyone interested, a working function to become a Daemon (background
>> task, unattached from the parent process) from a PHP CLI script is:
>
> <sinp code>
>
> this is useful code but I would like to point out that a daemon should
> automatically restart when it dies unexpectedly, and ensure that only one
> instance is running, not covering these cases is usally a bad thing. It
> depends what the daemon does of course.

Absolutely, daemon probably isn't the right word, fully detached process
would probably be better.

Although Apache is a daemon, but if the main apache process dies then it
won't automatically restart by itself will it (it relies on
start-stop-daemon or the like).

Anyway, thought the code may help someone in the future.

Cheers,

Andy

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