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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:59:58 -0500
From:      Christopher Weimann <cweimann@k12hq.com>
To:        Manuel Kasper <mk@neon1.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: exec'ing ppp from within PHP
Message-ID:  <20030210165958.A55795@mail.k12us.com>
In-Reply-To: <BA6DD536.1DC0%mk@neon1.net>; from mk@neon1.net on Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:16:22PM %2B0100
References:  <BA6DD536.1DC0%mk@neon1.net>

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On Mon 02/10/2003-10:16:22PM +0100, Manuel Kasper wrote:
> 
> I simply can't imagine what difference it makes whether ppp has been
> executed from PHP or from a shell script once it is running. And yes, I'm
> using > /dev/null 2>&1 in the exec() in PHP to make sure PHP won't wait for
> ppp - in fact PHP exits correctly after the exec, leaving ppp to run in the
> background.
> 

I have had similar problems with php.  You need to use /usr/sbin/daemon 
or /usr/ports/sysutils/detach if your FreeBSD doesn't have deamon.


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