What should I use to create daemons?

NotionCommotion · 11-11-2016, 10:14 AM

I am trying to create some polling service using PHP. Yes, I know I can use a CRON job, but would like to instead create some sort of service.

I started out writing some /etc/init.d/my_service script to do so.

Then I read about upstart (i.e. https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...-how-to-use-it) and how it should be used instead.

Then I read that upstart is going away, and I should use systemd https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ instead.

Currently using Centos6. Recommendations?

BW-userx · 11-11-2016, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by NotionCommotion

Recommendations?

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Sorry I couldn't resist.

cynwulf · 11-11-2016, 10:48 AM

Centos 6 uses sysvinit rather than systemd or upstart - so writing a SysV style init script as you were doing was the correct approach for that distribution. If you want to play with systemd, then you will need to move to Centos 7.