Re: Can I make a process run in background?

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:05 +0100, Luca Paolella wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very grateful for your help (thanks to everybody!), but maybe I > didn't explain myself correctly, I'm sorry. What I need is the bot to > log onto the server and, being logged as a user, to send some > periodic messages on a channel (<Bot> Hello!) while listening for > events and reacting consequentially (<User> !say Hi <Bot> Hi), so > running two parallel scripts that connect separately won't do. A > friend of mine suggested me a solution: he said that maybe two php > scripts could "share" the same connection to the irc server so that > while the first one processes the events, the second one acts in > background, is it possible? > The script already runs via terminal, anyway, on Linux (Debian) This can be done quite easily using shared memory and/or a database to share data between the scripts. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................