Re: PHP script won't run in the background

On 19 November 2011 14:33, richard gray <rich@richgray.com> wrote: > Hi all > > Hope someone can help me with a weird issue I have... > > I am trying to run a php CLI script in the background and it just won't run > - it has a status of Stopped SIGTOU (Trying to write output) - Here are the > details > > OS > Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 > > PHP > PHP 5.3.6 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep  8 2011 19:34:00) > Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group > Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies > > I created a basic script  test.php > > <?php echo 'Hello world'.PHP_EOL; ?> > > Here are the results of various tests:- > > Test 1) php -f test.php  (Hello world gets displayed) > Test 2) php -f test.php >test.log 2>&1 (Hello world gets put into test.log) > Test 3) php -f test.php >test.log 2>&1 & --- I get [1]+  Stopped(SIGTTOU) >      php -f test.php > test.log 2>&1 -- and the job just sits there doing > nothing nothing gets logged however lsof shows the log file is open > > It is something to do with php because a similar shell script gets executed > no problems in the background... > > This has me stumped ... any ideas? > > TIA > Rich > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I've seen this ... php script.php 1>nul 2>nul Not sure how effective it is. But the code is tagged as a "fire and forget" mechanism. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc : Fantasy Shopper @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea : fan.sh/6/370