exe() running in background.

[slick101]

Hey everyone.

I have a script where im converting video files to FLV with ffmpeg & generate an image from the movie.
Then I run FLVTool2 on the flv file.

Iam using exec() function.

When I am trying to convert the file it seems to not wait for the file to be done converting and it continues. My script ends before the file is even done converting. I check the server and its still converting it as my browser says Done. Not only that but i have some echo in the script but nothing is displayed, and it does not continue to do the rest of the script. I have been trying to change my Apache timeout and tried some values up to 300 but no luck.

Anyone have any idea how i can go by fixing this?

[Weedpacket]

Read the user notes on the manual page for the exec function.

[slick101]

Okay so my issue is apache timeout is there a way to reset that while my script is running?

i use

 $command = 'nohup '.$this->command.' > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!'
exec($command ,$op);
$this->pid = (int)$op[0];

i get the pid and do a status check if it still exists.

problem is apache timesout and drops everything.

Anyone have any idea?

[thenerse]

edit your httpd.conf file to allow for longer execution of files.. i think99999 is max.