Re: Suggestion on executing external programs from within php

Using system in this manner may work for small scripts/programs that only need authentication of the webserver. But for something like restarting a service I use a shell script run as a cron job then just call a system("touch /path/to/temp/file") which the cronjob looks at to see if it should restart a service. just 2 cents Jas Ammar Ibrahim wrote:

maybe if you put Call1 and Call2 in seprate PHP files, and you call both of them. i guess it would work Ammar "John Clegg" <cleggj@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:400E8515.4090301@attglobal.net...

Hi I would like to be able to execute 2 system calls simultaneously. I am not interested in the output and I would like to do the equivalent of a fork as these programs take a long time. eg system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1'); system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file2'); Any suggestions on what to use??? Cheers John Clegg