Re: daemon without pcntl_fork

Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > 2009/8/19 Per Jessen <per@computer.org>: >> Jim Lucas wrote: > > [snip] > >> I probably wouldn't have chosen PHP for the first one, but there's no >> reason it shouldn't work. For the second one, did you mean to >> write "serial port"? That's a bit of a different animal, I'm not sure >> how far you'll get with php. >> >>> Here is what I have come up with so far. Looks to satisfying my >>> needs: >>> >>> tms_daemon >> [snip] >>> # END OF SCRIPT >> Looks good to me. It'll certainly do the job. >> >> >> /Per > > I agree with Per on all points--I probably wouldn't choose PHP as a > first choice for the first task, but the startup script you have shown > looks like a bog-standard startup script and should serve you well. I > haven't really gone over it with a fine-toothed comb though. Typos > etc. are still up to to you. :) Of course, the whole thing depends on > how tms_daemon behaves, but the startup script looks OK. > > Can you explain in a bit more detail exactly what the second part (the > serial-network data logger) needs to do? I've written similar daemons > in C but not PHP--when I've needed to get something like that going > with a PHP script, I've used ser2net (which I linked to in an earlier > post) and been quite happy. Maybe you don't even have to do the hard > work yourself (or buy extra hardware to do it for you). > > > Cheers, > > Torben > As for the second project, I asked about it in the previous thread about the SMDR/CDR processor. http://www.nabble.com/SMDR-CDR-daemon-processor-td25014822.html Basically, I need to have a process that collects data via serial (USB|RS323), connects to a remote port, or listens and receives data from the PBX pushing it. The most common is the RS232 serial connection. Thats why I need to be able to listen on the local RS232 port for data coming from the PBX system. What I have built so far can connect to a remote machine, via a TCP/IP connection, and wait for data to be push out the specified TCP port. I haven't done it yet, but I know that I can easily build, using a different project as a base, the version that would connect to a local TCP/IP IP:PORT and wait for a PBX to send the data to that IP:PORT. After the data has been received, the process flow will be the same with all three methods. Parse it, sanitize it, store it. Hopefully that explains a little more. Jim