On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 13:28, Kai Renz <writemecas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (Putting this back on the list. Please use Reply-All.) > @Daniel: > Yeh i tried sending it to the background, this works but still it does > wait for the other script to finish. It shouldn't. In fact, just to see if I somehow completely forgot how things worked, I just mocked up the following and verified it worked perfectly: <?php // 1.php `php ./2.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 &`; echo 'I will now terminate, while the other script continues.'.PHP_EOL; ?> <?php // 2.php while (1) { file_put_contents('./123-whee.txt','I\'m still running!'.PHP_EOL,FILE_APPEND); } ?> dan@blackbox:~$ php 1.php I will now terminate, while the other script continues. dan@blackbox:~$ tail -f ./123-whee.txt I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! I'm still running! ^C dan@blackbox:~$ ps -ef | grep -i php dan 29428 1 34 13:37 pts/166 00:00:24 php ./2.php dan 29491 28729 0 13:38 pts/166 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i php -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php