Re: Persistent flag in memory

Op 2/11/10 5:42 AM, Teus Benschop schreef: > Thank you for the hints given. I'll look into the various options given. > The main reason for the need for a persistent flag in memory is that > several installations where the PHP code would be deployed do not have > access to crontab, so I am simulating crontab's functionality by letting > a PHP script run forever. Page visits would start that script, but once > the first visitor has started the script, next visitors would only start > it if the script had died. Here is where the persistent flag is needed. > Normally the script will never die unless at server reboot, or perhaps > if some timeout limit has been exceeded. If I would touch a file in the > filesystem as a flag, this would persist even after server reboot, so > that means that my simulated crontab would never restart, since it looks > like it runs. Teus. whatever it is that your trying to do, it sounds like one of two things: 1. you have hosting that is unsuitable for your needs 2. you are tackling the problem incorrectly at any rate, as far I'm concerned, you should never have a long running php process via a web server. (obviously this is the point that someone posts a brilliant use case to prove me wrong ;-) could you detail what is is you're actuallt trying to do, chances are people have: a. got a better alternative b. already invented the particular wheel you're trying to build c. you really do need shell (or even just control panel) access to run a cron job >