init.d scripts

[ed at eh3.com (Ed Hill)]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:32 -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> I'm trying to write an init.d script for a FC4 system.  Does anyone have a
> good tutorial for that?
> 
> The thing that I'm stuck on is that the "daemon" function appears to expect
> the first non-dashed parameter as the thing to run, and it also uses that
> parameter to form the pidfile name.
> 
> My problem is I am setting up to run a PHP script, so the command needs to be
> "php myscriptname.php foo bar", which I assume would create a pidfile called
> php.pid, which is not good.  I would rather not make a separate one-line
> script to call it.
> 
> Any advice?

Yes, all you have to do is:

  1) add the following line to the top of your script:

     #!/usr/bin/env php

  2) and then make the script executable:

     chmod +x myscriptname.php

and then you can remove the explicit php invocation and just use:

  myscriptname.php foo bar

Ed

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