js wrote: > C would be the last resort. I suppose it would be easily done in Perl, > but most of my colleagues prefer PHP. > I love to make taking over the code easy, so PHP is more preferable to > me. That makes perfect sense, but sometimes PHP is not the best/right answer. What I think you need to do is: parent: fork() your child process, then do whatever. child: use proc_open to call your program and redirect stderr. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php