Forum :: Game Development :: PHP: Waiting for a shell_exec command? (Linux)

As the title says, I'm using shell_exec to call a command on my server but for some reason it's like php is waiting for the command to end when it shouldn't be? When the command is run through a command line it works perfect, but the php page just says loading?The command I'm calling is a basic "service xxx start" which runs a process in the background.

edit: forgot to mention I have tried using   /dev/null 2>&1 & disown. Nothing seems to work.. That's why I was thinking it's a PHP thing?

uhmmmmmmm try I think it was

nohup [yourcommand] > /dev/null 2>&1 &

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