I don't have any experience in this realm, but you might look at http://drupal.org/project/daemon or http://drupal.org/project/daemoncli
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Leo Burd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > Is there any way to start/stop background processes from inside Drupal? > > I'm currently writing a module that has to continuously monitor a socket > connection for events coming from a remote server. I thought about using > hook_cron(), but I'm afraid that the infinite (or continuous) loop of my > event handler would tie out other modules that use hook_cron(). Another > alternative would be to use batch api, but do batch processes run in the > background? > > Thanks in advance, > > Leo >
