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thank you both for your replies. I had already tried the & but didnt route the output to /dev/null and doing so made it work like a charm . So for future posterity, my solution is: system($cmd." > /dev/null 2>&1 &"); I didnt try the fork but im sure that could work if i just didnt wait for the child. Thank you very much for ya'lls help!

hello all, I have a problem that google has been unable to solve for me. I need a php script to run an external program and simply continue execution without waiting for its completion. Currently i am calling "system($cmd);" where that then runs a java program to create and send an xmlrpc request to the cluster that then performs calculations for at least an hour. What I would like is it to just call $cmd and not bother waitiing on it. thank you