RE: [PHP] Is CRON'd PHP script already running?

i'm sure there are more elegant solutions, but you could control the running of your php script via a perl script called by cron....in perl check to see if the process is already running, and if so exit, else start it jack -----Original Message----- From: Simon Kimber [mailto:simon@funny.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:13 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Is CRON'd PHP script already running? Hi All, I have a PHP script that i want to run every few minutes (via cron) but I only want it to run if it isn't already running. Is there something in cron itself to solve this or is there a way within PHP to detect that another instance of the current script is running and if so exit the new instance before it does anything... eg. I could have a function to use like so: if (already_running($SCRIPT_NAME)) { exit(); } Thanks in advance! Simon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net