running startup scripts at server startup?

[T Stoneman]

I was wondering if PHP has some type of initialization functionality
at startup where I can run a script when the web server first boots
up?

I have an Apache server running PHP, and I would like whenever my web
server restarts to clean up some tables that have temporary
information in it.

I have searched through my PHP books and tried Googling, but as you
can imagine, most hits are about the apachectl startup script which is
not what I'm looking for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Terry

[CountScubula]

it would be best to put a link to your script in /etc/crond.daily/ rather
than when your server restarts, really how often does your server restart,
min restart about once every year.

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"T Stoneman" <ts********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I was wondering if PHP has some type of initialization functionality
at startup where I can run a script when the web server first boots
up?

I have an Apache server running PHP, and I would like whenever my web
server restarts to clean up some tables that have temporary
information in it.

I have searched through my PHP books and tried Googling, but as you
can imagine, most hits are about the apachectl startup script which is
not what I'm looking for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Terry

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2004-01-29, T Stoneman <ts********@hotmail.com> wrote:

I have an Apache server running PHP, and I would like whenever my web
server restarts to clean up some tables that have temporary
information in it.

I'm using debian overhere, so all my startup scripts are in /etc/rcX.d/
(with X the runlevel). Actually those directories only containt symlinks
to /etc/init.d/scripts

So if i wanted something that is being called when apache is started,
i'd edit /etc/init.d/apache and add a call to the script in the start
section.

But that requires that nobody is using apachectl directly.

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