[Backgroundrb-devel] Starting / stopping background rb when apache starts/stops

[Marc Evans]

Hello -

I would like to figure out a way to have backgroundrb start/stop with the 
same UID that dispatch.fcgi uses, at the same point in time that apache is 
started/stopped. I see a technique that seems plausable in this archive 
message:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2007-February/000723.html

which addresses the starting aspect, in a lazy fashion. That seems fine, 
particularly given it's resilience to unexpected terminations of the 
backgroundrb processes.

What I have not seen any discussion of is how to insure that backgroundrb 
is terminated (ideally cleanly) at the point in time that apache (or 
whatever web server you use) is terminated. In other words, I am hoping to 
use "apachectl {start|stop}" to control dispatch.fcgi and backgroundrb.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance - Marc