Thanks -- round two...

[bingomanatee]

Thanks a lot -- the variant I am using is is on the order of :

@exec('cvs rlog . | egrep -B4 "(VMW-3542)" >
cvs_output_VMW-3542_07-09-01_15-48-45.txt >
cvs_output_VMW-3542_07-09-01_15-48-45_err.txt');

One thing I am wondering about though is that the PHP script is
hanging for as long as it takes to execute this script -- on the order
of 10 minutes. This in and of itself is not the worst part; I am
wondering if the search is getting aborted because of the timeout
inherent in PHP requests.

According to the manual, if you pipe your exec() command, it should
execute and go on without delaying the process of the page. I do
believe that is what I have done, yet PHP is still waiting for the
exec() to resolve before rendering the page.

I am using AJAX to mitigate this from a UI perspective but from a test
perspective its kind of annoying.

Dave