PHP script on FreeBSD start up

Question

I have to run a PHP script as a service. Also it should be run on start up too (when a system crash/rebbot occurs). I tried with a cron job that runs once in a year. Once the cron triggered the process, I commented out it while running the process. But after a system reboot process stopped.

I tried this also but after closing the terminal process got stopped. Also I am not sure it will run on start up or not? Following is my php script.

<?php 
   while (true) {
      $command = "php $cwd\artisan synchronizedb --ptype=2";
      exec($command);
   }
?>

Possible duplicate of [Run php script as daemon process](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2036654/run-php-script-as-daemon-process) — Dekel, Nov 03 '16 at 11:44
@Dekel it wont restart on a system crash. So I want it restart on system startup. — Kiren S, Nov 03 '16 at 12:38
You may want to [read this about how FreeBSD startup scripts work](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8) — Richard Smith, Nov 03 '16 at 15:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 06 '16 at 09:41

FreeBSD has a very nice tool called daemon you could just create a simple script like this

#!/bin/sh

echo "starting XYZ"
daemon -r /path/to/your/script

The -r option, Supervise and restart the program if it has been terminated.

Later you have some options

Add the script to rc.local, edit the file /etc/rc.local
Create a cron that runs only on reboot:
```
@reboot  root /path/to/your/script
```
Put your script on /usr/local/etc/rc.d just chmod+x

The cron @reboot could be the easiest one.

PHP script on FreeBSD start up

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