I got this working by following these instructions to create a daemon:
Memcached (Daemon) Installation:
1. Try to install with yum:
# yum install libevent
If this succeeds skip to #5. If this fails, then let's compile.
Download and extract the latest stable version:
# cd /usr/local/src
# wget http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz
# gunzip -c libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz | tar xf -
# cd libevent-1.4.12-stable
2. Let's compile:
# ./configure && make && make install
3. In the output you should see:
Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/lib
If so you can:
# echo "/usr/local/lib/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent.conf
4. Configure your server for the new install:
# ldconfig -v
5. Now find the latest stable memcached, download and extract:
# cd /usr/local/src
# wget http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.0.tar.gz
# gunzip -c memcached-1.4.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
# cd memcached-1.4.0
6. Let's compile:
# ./configure && make && make install
7. Make sure memcached is starts automatically on server boot:
# touch /etc/rc.d/init.d/memcached
# echo '#!/bin/sh -e' >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/memcached
# echo '/usr/local/bin/memcached -d -m 128 -p 11211 -u nobody -l
localhost' >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/memcached
# chmod u+x /etc/rc.d/init.d/memcached
8. And finally, let's start memcached:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/memcached
