On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > While this will work, I would caution against doing this, especially when > using Apache as the web server. . . . > > Forking an HTTP request handler can lead to some very unwelcome > side-effects. I'd urge you not to do this. It may appear to work for a > while, but I guarantee you'll live to regret it. Thank you, Negative Nancy. :) Those are excellent points, and luckily we're doing this for an infrequently run internal report that runs on a machine that doesn't do much else. Alternatively, you can use & in bash or some other shell to spawn a background job, and I suppose you could create a wrapper shell script that does that calls php in the background. But there must be a direct way using an alternate to exec(). David
