Programming :: Launching An Independent Java Process From Php (via Httpd)

i'm trying to spawn a daemon-like java process from php on a unix environment, keep the pid for reference and keep it completely independent from httpd processes. I'm using the following code

$command = 'java -cp /myApp/ MyApp';
exec('nohup '.$command.' >> /myApp/myLog.txt 2>&1 & disown & echo $!', $pid);
$pid = (int)$pid[0];

But it gets killed when you httpd restart. I just want it never to get killed except if i call "kill $pid" command.

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