Running PHP from inetd

Apologies if you've seen this question before, but I *know* someone has an answer. :) I am trying to use the CGI version of PHP to act as a kind of "server", listening on a particular port, then firing up a script on input. (I'm using PHP4, but I think the problem exists under PHP3 also). First, here is the appropriate line from /etc/services: php_listen 56789/tcp And from /etc/inetd.conf: php_listen stream tcp nowait nobody.tty /home/cmv/listen.phx Finally, the script /home/cmv/listen.phx is at the end of this email. Basically, everything works except that the output (writing to STDOUT) is buffered, so the server responses aren't visible immediately. I've tried using set_file_buffer(), but that generates a PHP error. I've also tried fopen()-ing and fclose()-ing STDOUT for each write, but that generates more PHP errors. Finally, I've tried turning on implicit_flush in php.ini ... still no go. The script works great from the command line, so I'm thinking that maybe there is some problem with where PHP things STDOUT is?. Or maybe there is an environment variable that I need to export? I don't know. Has anyone else used PHP like this? Or can anyone give any suggestions on how to get this working? __________________________________________________________________ Colin Viebrock easyDNS Technologies control your domain http://www.easyDNS.com /home/cmv/listen.phx: #!/usr/local/bin/php -q <? $STDIN = fopen('php://stdin', 'r'); $STDOUT = fopen('php://stdout', 'w'); function sread(&$string) { global $STDIN; $x = $string = ''; while ($x!="\n") { $x = fread($STDIN, 1); $string.=$x; } $string = trim($string); } function swrite($string) { global $STDOUT; fwrite($STDOUT, $string); if (substr($string,-1)!="\n") { fwrite($STDOUT, "\n"); } flush($STDOUT); } swrite('Hello!'); swrite('Say "bye" to quit.'); $input = ''; $loop = true; while ($loop) { sread($input); switch (strtolower($input)) { case 'bye': $loop = false; break; default: swrite ('You said "' . $input . '"!'); swrite ('Say something else'); break; } } swrite ('Bye!'); fclose($STDIN); fclose($STDOUT); ?>