Right on the moment this process is not a option... because the project
should end in 4 weeks... perhaps after a while i could try use this
ideia of yours...
But right now i have to find a diferent solution...

But thanks Jim... that open new horizons...



Jim Lucas escreveu:
> Rodolfo De Nadai wrote:
>> No... it not should only run when i'm connected to it throught a web
>> server...
>> it means that when i go to specific IE page and press a button named
>> 'Enable' the daemon should be called and start to run indefinitly,
>> and i'm able to close IE session and the daemon keep working as well...
>>
>> That's what i mean...
>
> Well, in that case, what you could do is have a cron job, or if on
> windows some form of scheduled task, that looks for a file that
> indicates that it should be running.
>
> Then from apache, you could setup a page that has your enable button.
> When submitted, it creates a file that indicates to the above
> scheduled task that it needs to run.
>
> Then, when that scheduled task starts, it looks at the file and sees
> that it needs to be running, then it stays running. It checks to see
> if it has a pid file already created. if it cannot find a pid file, it
> creates a pid file to indicate that it is running. It checks every
> once in a while to see if the file that tells it that it needs to be
> running it still there, once that file goes away, it kills the pid
> file and kills itself too.
>
> Then the scheduled jobs keeps checking...
>
> You might find that you need to do a little refinement to this
> process. But, this is where I would start.
>
>

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