Construct a Service

amirsarb · 06-01-2007, 09:40 AM

hi all
i have a program that should be always run in background.
but i don't know how to construct it like a service.

(my program written by php and is a single file but is not a web application and run by:
/usr/local/bin/php -q /<path of file>
this file is a sms engine that always connect to database and send my user sms)

may you help me please?

raskin · 06-01-2007, 09:54 AM

What distribution do you use? Generally, you can either add
/usr/local/bin/php -q /<path of file> & disown
to /etc/rc.local (or where it is located) or write a shell script to launch you program, put it in /etc/init.d (or /etc/rc.d/init.d) and place a link to it with name starting with S99 in /etc/rcS.d (again /etc/rc.d/rcS.d is possible).

crabboy · 06-01-2007, 09:58 AM

Well, if you were using C, I'd suggest using the daemon() call. In your case the best bet may just be to nohup it and put it in the background.

nohup script_with_php_call &

this would allow you to close the controlling terminal, but it would not give you any fault tolerance like a true service, ie. if the process dies it will be restarted.