Hi guys,

I'm trying to refresh my apache knowledge by putting together small services on my LAN.

I'm wondering what are the best practices when it comes to run a php script as a deamon with the apache account on Slackware 14.1

By security, Slackware ships the apache account with a fake shell which can't run anything at all (of course)

Basically, here's the command I need to run as a daemon : It's meant to update RSS feeds retrived by Tiny Tiny RSS.

The folder is owned by apache:apache so running the script with any other account might result in permissions conflicts.

I've though about giving the apache user a restricted shell and then, run said command in a screen instance.

Any thoughts on this ?

Tiny Tiny RSS related documentation

Cheers.

I would change the folder ownership to apache:users, change the folder permissions to 775, and run the script under my username, which defaults to me:users. This way the script would be able to write there.

I think that's safer than giving shell access to the apache user.

You can invoke a command even with it being /bin/false...

This is how I run sickbeard/sickrage on my machine whhen the sickbeard user is assigned /bin/false

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Thanks guys

bassmadrigal's advice worked like a charm.

The daemon runs in a screen instance now.