Run PHP continuous in OpenSuSE

[fotofx]

I have a php script that needs to load upon system startup and stay running continuously in OpenSuSE.

It is a log monitoring script to run with asterisk. It has appropriate pauses built into it.

What is the best way to accomplish this??

[bradgrafelman]

What is the best way to accomplish.. what, exactly? To execute a command on startup in OpenSUSE, see this post on the OpenSUSE forums.

[fotofx]

Not just run the command at startup...

It is a PHP script that need to continue running until the next server shutdown.

[bradgrafelman]

If not that, then what? You can set (and also disable) the time limit PHP imposes on scripts via the function [man]set_time_limit/man.

[dagon]

Create daemons in PHP

[fotofx]

Sorry if I seem confused, I am a Windows guy...

So I would just change to the proper directory and do:

php5 scriptname.php

And it would continue running in the background like a service in Windows???

[fotofx]

dagon;10993132 wrote:

Create daemons in PHP

Tried this... Could not get it to work with OpenSuSE

[dagon]

there's quite a few other daemon scripts you could try, but it is a daemon you are trying to create. And "could not get it to work" is not enough for us to go on if you expect any help.

[fotofx]

I will get back into it and be descriptive of the problems..

Thanks

[bradgrafelman]

fotofx;10993133 wrote:

So I would just change to the proper directory and do:

php5 scriptname.php

You wouldn't even need to change directories (assuming you supplied an absolute file path, of course). Also, that command would only work if:

1. The PHP CLI binary (or a link to it) was given the name 'php5', and

2. The binary (or a link to it) can be found in a directory listed in the PATH environment variable

However, note that your terminal would hang at that point since it's waiting for the PHP program to finish. To fork it into the background, add an '&' at the end of the command.

fotofx;10993133 wrote:

And it would continue running in the background like a service in Windows???

Yes and no, depending upon whether you view a "service" being the same thing as a program that has been forked into the background. (To me, the two are quite different.)

fotofx;10993135 wrote:

Tried this... Could not get it to work with OpenSuSE

Considering that it looks like what dagon linked to is nothing but a pretty wrapper/interface for the Process Control functions in PHP (see: [man]PCNTL[/man]), I'd say the problem has nothing to do with openSUSE.

[fotofx]

I followed the instructions at:

http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/create_daemons_in_php/

Here is my simple.php

#!/usr/bin/php5 -q
<?php
/**
 * System_Daemon turns PHP-CLI scripts into daemons.
 *
 * PHP version 5
 *
 * @category  System
 * @package   System_Daemon
 * @author    Kevin <[e-mail]>
 * @copyright 2008 Kevin van Zonneveld
 * @license   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php New BSD Licence
 * @link      http://github.com/kvz/system_daemon
 */

/**
 * System_Daemon Example Code
 *
 * If you run this code successfully, a daemon will be spawned
 * and stopped directly. You should find a log enty in
 * /var/log/simple.log
 *
 */

// Make it possible to test in source directory
// This is for PEAR developers only
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path').':..');

// Include Class
error_reporting(E_ALL);
require_once "System/Daemon.php";

// Bare minimum setup
System_Daemon::setOption("appName", "vtigermon");
System_Daemon::setOption("authorEmail", "[e-mail]");

//System_Daemon::setOption("appDir", dirname(__FILE__));
System_Daemon::log(System_Daemon::LOG_INFO, "Daemon not yet started so ".
    "this will be written on-screen");

// Spawn Deamon!
System_Daemon::start();
System_Daemon::log(System_Daemon::LOG_INFO, "Daemon: '".
    System_Daemon::getOption("appName").
    "' spawned! This will be written to ".
    System_Daemon::getOption("logLocation"));

// Your normal PHP code goes here. Only the code will run in the background
// so you can close your terminal session, and the application will
// still run.

require("520AsteriskClient.php");


System_Daemon::stop();

If I try and run simple.php I get the script onscreen as it it is running. But when I close my Putty terminal the script seems to stop as if it is not running as a daemon.

[dagon]

how are you running it, you shouldn't get any thing on screen.

[fotofx]

That may be part of the problem. I did as instructed at the website above. After making the file executable I tried running it.

I get the following:

/srv/www/htdocs/vtigercrm/cron/modules/PBXManager # simple.php
If 'simple.php' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf simple.php

[fotofx]

I am running:

chmod a+x simple.php

from within the directory that simple.php is in.

[dagon]

that does not run the file it makes it executable.

[fotofx]

dagon;10993148 wrote:

that does not run the file it makes it executable.

Correct, but then I should be able to just type simple.php at the command line...

Right????

That is where I am getting the error, as if the file is not executable..

[bradgrafelman]

No, because "simple.php" is likely nowhere to be found in your PATH environment variable.

Try running "./simple.php" instead.

[fotofx]

bradgrafelman;10993151 wrote:

No, because "simple.php" is likely nowhere to be found in your PATH environment variable.

Try running "./simple.php" instead.

Now I get:

Extension './simple.php' not present.