background process

[pupeno]

Has anybody run a background process from php sucessfully ?
I tryed a lot of diferents way, acording to the manual, this should work, but it doesn't:

system("php -q $DOCUMENT_ROOT/../scripts/sendmeetmails.php < /dev/null 2>&1 > /tmp/sendmeetmails ");

Any idea why it doesn't work and how to solve it ? 😕
Or any other method that works to run a background process ?
Thank you.😃

[theeper]

This would only work if your PHP install was stand alone binary. It will not work with modules. (assuming you are using apache on *nix).

You may be able to use Lynx or something if you have a module based PHP installation.