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[PHP3] Shell in background? From: Karl Pielorz (kpielorz <email protected>)
Date: 01/30/99

Is there any way of pursuading the 'exec' / 'system' functions to shell off a
command and run it in background?

At the moment if I do:

exec( "/usr/local/bin/reconf system.dat" );

The calling script sits there and waits for 'reconf' to finish (which take
aroun 3 minutes :-( - I've tried 'tricking it with a simple:

exec( "/usr/local/bin/reconf system.dat &" );

But that didn't work... Am I going to have to carry the tricks further and
'wrapper' the program somehow (e.g. php calls's a shell script which then
calls the offending program 'in background')?

Regards,

Karl 

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