Executing system commands...

[Anon]

Hello,
I have the following scenario. Main browser window application opens the new window by executing javascript. Within the new window I execute system command/job using the following syntax

$result = nohup myjob &;

job is executed properly no problem here. This job is a perl program that can take sometimes 30-45 minutes to execute. So I give user a choice to close the window and continue to work with my application in the main window. However the main window doesn't respone to any new request until the job, executed in now closed window and running in the background, doesn't finish.

Is this normal behavior? I want my users to be able to execute the job and continue the browsing without relogin.

Any ideas will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Robert.

[Anon]

ive had the same problem, php doesnt detach from the process you start even if you use the &. in my case i was running a php script, so i could add the line
ignore_user_abort(1);
to the top of the script so that the user can leave the page but the process will remain running..

-paul
http://xhawk.net