Script doesn't run

English Programming/Scripting
1

Hi Guys,

I hope you can help me.
I am trying to run a script, but somehow it doesn’t work.

php /path_to_directory/video_processing_scripts/get_video_thumbnail.php >>/dev/null &

When I run it in Terminal, it shows me

[8] 10861

[7]+ Stopped

and doesn’t work. It somehow only works if I leave the & and run

php /path_to_directory/video_processing_scripts/get_video_thumbnail.php >>/dev/null

But I definatly need to background the script.

Thanks in advance

Dominik

2

This is often because the program tries to read stdin and you have still it connected to your interactive session. Try diverting stdin from /dev/null as well.

php /path_to_directory/video_processing_scripts/get_video_thumbnail.php < /dev/null > /dev/null &

BTW, you don’t need >> /dev/null since there is nothing in /dev/null to append to, by definition. Or equivalently a seek to EOF of /dev/null is a no-op.

3

Hi,
thank you for your reply. It somehow still doesn’t work.
It is very strange. It worked perfectly just a few days ago. I want this script to run, when I visit a Website.
It executes the other php file.
<?php
exec(“php /absolute_path_to_file/test.php”);
?>

if this test.php is smth like:
<?php
exec (“rm /absolute_path_to_file/video.flv”);
?>
It works perfectly, but as soon as I try to get a thumbnail using ffmpeg, it fails. But if I use the same commant in Terminal it works again.

I really don’t know why. I was setting the permissions of the directory to 775 and the owner to wwwrun:www

Thanks in advance

4

Hi,

I found out, that it was a permissions issue. I had make a copy of ffmpeg in /usr/bin/ and set the fileowner to wwwrun:www

Thank you for your help anyway