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Re: [PHP3] Shell in background? From: Jeremiah Bellomy (jeremiah <email protected>)
Date: 01/31/99

On 1999-01-30 Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 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
>around 3 minutes :-(

I've found that something like the following usually works great:

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

-Jeremiah Bellomy 

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