Ok, this seems really weird. When I am running a php script from the command line with & at the end to run it in the background, it's immediately stopped. I tried it on another server and it worked as expected; the job is running in the background.
The PHP
#!/usr/bin/php <?php sleep (5); Output on Server 1
[mk@li89-44 html]# ./test.php & [1] 4938 [mk@li89-44 html]# jobs [1]+ Running ./test.php & Output on Server 2
[mk@dev html]# ./test.php & [1] 4938 [mk@dev html]# jobs [1]+ Stopped ./test.php & On Server 2, I can get it in the background like so:
[mk@dev html]$ ./test.php ctrl + z [1]+ Stopped ./test.php [mk@dev html]$ bg [1]+ ./test.php & [mk@dev html]$ jobs [1]+ Running ./test.php Also on Server 2, if i do something like wget "http://fileserver.com/largefile.gz" & it goes into the bg running as expected. Running nohup ./test.php & on server 2 also works as expected.
Both servers are running centos, different versions, and different versions of php as well. I dunno if that's relevant, or if this can be explained just by the way jobs, fg, bg work on linux.
