CLI Daemon

This module provides a really fast, secure and stable, lightweight CLI Daemon. This daemon exposes a simple hook in order for module to run actions using it.

Features

• Clean usage of pcntl_* extension, with SIG handling.
• Lightweight, it does bootstrap a Drupal in child processes in order to let modules benefits from hook_init(), hook_exit(), and a clean environment.
• Is able to run job_queue jobs, and Drupal cron if no other module has been run.
• Provide a Drush integration.
• The CLI Daemon can be run and killed by site administrator from the Drupal administration.
• Proceed implementing module list pragmatically, run the first found and dies after remembering where is its module pointer within the module list.

Use cases

• Heavy data migration, as with the Yamm module, for example.
• Recurrent arbitrary data alteration, like feeding node reference fields content as with the Solace Node Reference module.
• Running job queue in order to send a lot of mail in another context than the HTTPd limited execution threads.
• Running the cron outside the same HTTPd environment.

Status

No Drupal 7 version of this package will be created. This code will be ported to Drupal 7 as a sub-package of the Advanced Batch module, which is actually in a sandbox state.

Issues, bugfixes and maintenance for this Drupal 6 version remains welcomed.

Credits

Development

Makina Corpus | Contact us

Community

This module has been originally developed by Florent Jousseaume, for a larger project.
This module has been made generic because of DataSync daemon heavy bugs.