Posted by MS on 02/14/06 17:42

> When checking the php.net site there were a few examples of background
processes
> using exec() that may work out okay. I think some of these writing all
output to
> /dev/null and setting it as a background process with "&".
>
> exec('php /path/to/thumb.php > /dev/null 2>&1 &');
>
> Similar to your suggestion, but it looked like shell_exec may be expecting
> results to store in a variable.
>

I will give this a go, but could you point me in the direction of where I
can learn what the parameters are in this function.

the http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php page does not let me know
what the parameters are or could be. etc..

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