Posted by John Nichel on 09/21/05 19:45

ernst@newdisorder.com wrote:
> as I said, the default timout is 300 seconds, a lot longer than my
> program takes to run, and I am pretty certain that if timeout were
> triggered, I'd see it in the client.
> Yeah, I'm using a browser on the php page, and everything seems to
> function fine from the browser to the server, it's after the server gets
> the uploaded file and begins to play with it that things become weird.

What's the output of...

$output = shell_exec ( '/path/to/your/app' );
echo ( "<pre>" . $output . "</pre>" );

....when it doesn't work?

> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, John Nichel wrote:
>
>> ernst@newdisorder.com wrote:
>>
>>> timeout isn't being used on either of these machines, and as far as I
>>> read it, the timeout directive would make the web server fail,
>>> producing an apache error or some strange behaviour on the client
>>> end. Neither of
>>
>>
>> How is timeout _not_ being used? It's a core directive. If the
>> timeout is reached, the thread dies, along with anything running with it.
>>
>>> these happens, the php script completes normally, but the exec
>>> command (and only these exec commands, I'm using others in the script
>>> that work fine) doesn't always complete. Even if timeout was set to
>>> its normal default of 300 seconds, this all happens way before 300
>>> seconds have passed. The whole process takes about 20 or 30 seconds.
>>
>>
>> Just to make sure I'm understanding you, you're hitting the php page
>> in a browser, right? Like you're going to
>> http://www.yourhost.com/page.php where page.php contains somthing like...
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> exec ( '/path/myapp', $out, $res );
>>
>> ?>
>>
>> Right?
>>
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