Make sure that exec() will not get any kind of response from the script if
you want it in the background.
This works for me:
$command = "funky script stuff here";
exec ("$command >/dev/null 2>&1 &");
Peter Clarke
"Jason Rennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a seperate perl script that I need to start running from a php
> script. The script does a fork into the backgroup and exits.
>
> when i do an
>
> exec("funky script stuff here");
>
> The page just hangs trying to load again, apparently after I call the
> exec.
>
> I've also tried
>
> exec("script stuff &")
>
> but it does the same thing.
>
> Any ideas anybody ?
>
> Jason
>
> --
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> take Hofstadter's Law into account."
>
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