Seg Fault PHP Shell Script

[Anon]

I have been having numerous problems with using PHP as a shell script language and recently when processing files at set times using cron would seg fault every X times with no set pattern or reason.

[Anon]

Tim,

A segfault error could be anything to do with memory management - check your code that involves allocating and freeing memory.

In addition, consider an alternative language - PHP is great to run CGI pages but if you are running your scripts from cron, chances are you are better off using the shell, perl, or python (python is easy - I recommend it.).

[Anon]

The strange thing is that the script in questions handles mail piped to it from an aliases and when you run a test of 1000 e-mail to the address you get 988 or so fine but in the middle or sometimes the end you get seg faults and returned mail notices.

[Anon]

Are all the test emails identical?

Are you calling sendmail or using the built in PHP SMTP?

[Anon]

I am a new programmer, please give me tutorial book about programming with php,
an information about web programming
thanks

[Anon]

I wrote a info-reply type autoresponder using php piping from aliases to the script and using php://stdin to get the input works great and I open a connection to the mysql database to write the from and subject to and forward using a call to sendmail the mail to me. It works a treat but every now and then I get a seg or the sender gets one but very very far between!

[Anon]

Many of the examples right here on site at www.phpbuilder.com are good starting points but for a more basic look have a look at www.devshed.com