daemons listen on apache port when run by php

I am trying to run a daemon via php4 & apache2 (on debian sarge). I am using the command "exec('sh script.sh');". All works fine, my daemon (which I run with script.sh) is running. But when I stop apache, I can see that the daemon I ran previously is listening on port 80 (apache port). This does not happen if I run the script from a shell. How can I prevent these daemons from taking over port 80? This happens with amule and giftd (haven't tried any others though). this is my script: #!/bin/bash HOME=/var/www case "$1" in

        start)
                /usr/bin/giftd -dq --home-dir '/var/www'
                ;;
        stop)
                killall giftd
                ;;
        restart | force-reload)
                $0 stop
                sleep 2
                $0 start
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Usage: gift.sh {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" exit 1

esac exit 0 the command used in php: exec('./gift.sh start'); what I get when I stop apache, after I ran the script: [router:/var/www/.giFT] racer% sudo netstat -np --ip --listen | grep 80 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2522/giftd Dusan Smolnikar