In case you missed it, the yearly run of PHP Advent for 2009 included an article by Sean Coates, an active contributor to the Phergie project. In this article, Sean describes his interesting use of Supervisord, a Python-based client/server system for monitoring *NIX processes, to run Phergie as a daemon. It’s a wonderful read if you’re looking for a way to run Phergie in the background without using screen.