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

2004-01-23 Thread 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

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

2004-01-23 Thread Ammar Ibrahim
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 news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi > > I would like to be able to execute 2 system calls simultaneously. I am > not interested in the output and