max_ execution_time and scripts launched from command line

[gap]

The question might already have been asked, but I can't find something relevant in the archive.

Does the execution time limit apply to scripts that have been launched from the shell command line and run independent from the http server (that is, not as CGI and not through the server module)? If I give a script a shebang line (#!/usr/bin/php -q), and make it executable, will it run for as long as it takes to complete?

And related to this, if I don't have shell access, how can I run the script (I suppose that calling it via the web server will limit its execution time)?

Thanks.

[yelvington]

shell_exec ('nohup scriptname &' )

man nohup

NOHUP(1) FSF NOHUP(1)

NAME

   nohup  - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

[gap]

Thanks for the suggestion.