RE: [PHP-DEV] How to star program backgrund?

Hello Theodore, On 28-Jun-00 15:43:49, you wrote: >I'm not sure your setup, but on most of ours, you can't run updatedb as the >werb server user, updatedb usually needs to be run as root.... >I'm not sure if you can run a program in the background either, anyone else >want to comment? I've just added finally a note to the PHP manual on how to let programs be started and left running in the background. Basically all you need is to redirect the program output to a file or some other output stream (/dev/null). Wait for the next manual rebuild. >$RunCommand = exec("updatedb&"); Make it like this: >$RunCommand = exec("updatedb >/dev/null &"); Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org -- E-mail: mlemos@acm.org URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp --