Porblem with "system &" command

[pirahna79]

What I need is pretty simple:

1. Open a PHP-script through the browser
2. The script launches the CGI application and quits
3. I close the browser, but CGI application should be running on the server

For some reason system("my.cgi &") doesn't run the cgi process in the background and makes the browser hanging until the process is complete, i.e. I have to wait with the open browser window.

Any idea what the problem can be about?

Any help appreciated.

[matt_4013]

Hi there, did you read the manual?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php

Note: If you start a program using this function and want to leave it running in the background, you have to make sure that the output of that program is redirected to a file or some other output stream or else PHP will hang until the execution of the program ends.

Hope that helps,
Matt