init.d scripts

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, January 30, 2006 10:56 am, Ed Hill wrote:
> 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

I thought of that.   I can't really do that, because the script is also
web-accessible, and the shebang line would print out on the page.

Making a one-line script to call it sounds like the best option at this point.

Thanks.