This is brief instruction for you to install gearmand and gearman's PHP extension on a Fedora 11 server.

It is assumed that you have a valid PHP installed either by compilation or RPM. You need to prepare your own PHP installation path first. In RPM case, it would be "/usr". If you compiled your own PHP and didn't configured your own PREFIX, you may try "/usr/local".

1. First, go to the place you store source code
   1. cd /usr/local/src
2. Get the source code of both gearmand and php extension
   1. wget http://launchpad.net/gearmand/trunk/0.11/+download/gearmand-0.11.tar.gz
   2. wget http://pecl.php.net/get/gearman-0.6.0.tgz
3. Compile and install gearmand
   1. tar -xzf gearmand-0.11.tar.gz
   2. cd gearmand-0.11
   3. find . -type d | xargs -I{} chmod 755 {}
   4. yum -y install libevent libevent-devel e2fsprogs-devel autoconf automake
   5. ./configure --prefix="/usr/local/gearmand-0.11"
   6. make && make install
4. Compile and install gearman PHP extension
   1. export PHPROOT="/path/to/your/php/installation/not-include-bin"
   2. export GEARMANROOT=" /usr/local/gearmand-0.11"
   3.  
   4. $PHPROOT/bin/phpize
   5. ./configure \
   6.   --with-php-config="$PHPROOT/bin/php-config" \
   7.   --with-gearman="$GEARMANROOT"
   8.  
   9. make && make install
5. Update your php.ini and add this line:
   1. extension="gearman.so"
6. You may create an init script this way:
   1. #!/bin/bash
   2. #
   3. # gearmand        Startup script for the Gearman server
   4. #
   5. # chkconfig: - 85 15
   6. # description: Gearman is a distributed job system.
   7. # processname: gearmand
   8. # config: /etc/sysconfig/gearmand
   9. # pidfile: /var/run/gearmand/gearmand.pid
   10. #
   11. ### BEGIN INIT INFO
   12. # Provides: gearmand
   13. # Required-Start: $local_fs $network
   14. # Required-Stop: $local_fs $network
   15. # Default-Start:
   16. # Default-Stop:
   17. # Short-Description: start and stop the Gearman server
   18. # Description: Gearman is a distributed job system.
   19. ### END INIT INFO o
   20.  
   21. # Configurations
   22. PREFIX="/usr/local/gearmand-0.11"
   23. USER="daemon"
   24.  
   25. # Source function library.
   26. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
   27.  
   28. if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/gearmand ]; then
   29.     /etc/sysconfig/gearmand
   30. fi
   31.  
   32. if [ ! -d "/var/run/gearmand" ]; then
   33.     mkdir /var/run/gearmand
   34.     chown $USER /var/run/gearmand
   35.     chmod 700 /var/run/gearmand
   36. fi
   37.  
   38. [ -z "${PIDFILE}" ] && pidfile="/var/run/gearmand/gearmand.pid"
   39. [ -z "${LOCKFILE}" ] && lockfile="/var/lock/subsys/gearmand"
   40.  
   41. gearmand=$PREFIX/sbin/gearmand
   42. prog=gearmand
   43.  
   44. RETVAL=0
   45.  
   46. start() {
   47.     echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
   48.     daemon --pidfile=$pidfile --user=$USER $gearmand -d $OPTIONS
   49.     RETVAL=$?
   50.     echo
   51.     [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && (touch $lockfile; pgrep -f $gearmand > $pidfile)
   52.     return $RETVAL
   53. }
   54.  
   55. stop() {
   56.     echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
   57.     killproc -p $pidfile $gearmand
   58.     RETVAL=$?
   59.     echo
   60.     [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile $pidfile
   61. }
   62.  
   63. # See how we were called.
   64. case "$1" in
   65.         start)
   66.     start
   67.     ;;
   68.         stop)
   69.     stop
   70.     ;;
   71.         status)
   72.               status -p $pidfile $gearmand
   73.     RETVAL=$?
   74.     ;;
   75.         restart|reload)
   76.     stop
   77.     start
   78.     ;;
   79.         condrestart|try-restart)
   80.     if status -p $pidfile $gearmand >&/dev/null; then
   81.         stop
   82.         start
   83.     fi
   84.     ;;
   85.         *)
   86.     echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart|status|help}"
   87.     RETVAL=3
   88. esac
   89.  
   90. exit $RETVAL

• http://gearman.org/?id=gearman_php_extension
• http://blog.trungson.com/2009/11/initd-script-for-gearmand.html