[PHP] Re: Running php in background?

2002-01-07 Thread LaserJetter
I had Apache running on Win98 and doing a pretty demanding job (well, for a 350MHz K2) and it slowed the machine down noticeably. If the PHP script timed out the computer came back to like but if i closed the browser window or clicked stop it seemed to keep doing it. Maybe MySQL is finishing off

[PHP] Re: Running php in background?

2002-01-07 Thread J Smith
For this sort of thing, it may be easier to run the job from a shell. Try compiling php as the CGI/CLI executable. Then you can run your scripts like, say, a Perl script or whatever. Just add the ampersand at the end of the command to run it in the background. (I'm assuming a UNIX-like system