Posted by matt VanDeWalle on 10/21/03 11:33

ah ok thanks, am reading it now

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Marcus Bointon wrote:

> On 21 Nov 2005, at 17:39, matt VanDeWalle wrote:
>
>> I have what may seem like a small problem but its not obvious to me.
>> I have a script that I forked and that part works fine, it forks, tells me
>> the pid like I wanted, and keeps running. Well, the problem that was not
>> apparent to me until about 3 days ago when I was wondering why the
>> script(my php chat server) was crashing at seeminly random times. I
>> finally figured out that when I logged out of my shell in linux, the
>> talker would go down as well. Obviously I don't want that but what do I
>> need to add to the line when i start the script
>
> Example1 on the php docs page is what you need:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php
>
> The important thing is the call to posix_setsid(), which detaches your forked
> process from your terminal process. Works great for me - I've had PHP daemons
> running for over 9 months without a break.
>
> Marcus
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