Question

I used the pear system daemon class, that basically allows me to create a daemon that runs as user 1000 and group 1000.

It then uses the php exec function to execute the following code:

nohup php merge.php 1 > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!

for some reason merge.php does not start executing. I have started thinking its a permission problem…

What can I do to fix this?

When I run the daemon as root, merge.php gets executed … so it is definately a permissions problem.

merge.php is owned by webmaster and group apache.

Answer 1

Have you tried without the echo at the end and also witout the 1 > /dev/null and replaced this with the simple >/dev/null.

Also you could try making a script

#!/bin/sh

exec php merge.php

And then

nohup <script name> >/dev/null 2>&1 &