[PHP] Re: Suggestion on executing external programs from within php

[Jas]

Using system in this manner may work for small scripts/programs that 
only need authentication of the webserver.  But for something like 
restarting a service I use a shell script run as a cron job then just 
call a system("touch /path/to/temp/file") which the cronjob looks at to 
see if it should restart a service.

just 2 cents
Jas
Ammar Ibrahim wrote:

maybe if you put Call1 and Call2 in seprate PHP files, and you call both of
them. i guess it would work
Ammar
"John Clegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi

I would like to be able to execute 2 system calls simultaneously. I am
not interested in the output and I would like to do the equivalent of a
fork as these programs take a long time.
eg

system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1');
system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file2');
Any suggestions on what to use???

Cheers

John Clegg
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