On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:58:26PM +0100, richard gray wrote:
> On 29/11/2011 17:16, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 09:33, richard gray<[email protected]> wrote:
> >This happens because PHP is writing to STDOUT, of course, and then the
> >command line redirection grabs that information and puts it into the
> >file. Unfortunately, by itself, this won't work in the background,
> >which is why you're getting the SIGTTOU (SIGnal TTy OUput). If you
> >need to redirect the output and have it run in the background (where
> >something like file_put_contents() or fwrite() isn't a practical
> >option), give it a NOHUP (NO Hang-UP): nohup php test.php > test.log &
> >This will automatically redirect STDERR to STDOUT, save for the
> >message telling you the same.
>
> Thanks for your reply Daniel unfortunately nohup makes no difference the
> script still stops with no output being logged -- and also on a
> different machine (Ubuntu) php -f test.php >test.log 2>&1 & -- works
> perfectly - seems to be an issue with OSX Lion and the version of PHP
> that came with the machine -- I cannot compile my own build of PHP
> because of this problem -> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60268 -- so I
> am completely stuck :(
The point is that you need to completely disassociate the process from the tty.
Install the daemonize program, then use it to run your PHP script. See:
http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/
It claims to run under OSx (which is just BSD Unix).
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