title: Can I start a script so it's independent of its parent process on Linux?
body: <p>Is there a way to start a script from another process, so that if the process dies/ends, the script still continues?</p>
  
  <p>Will setuid do this?  If I were to set the owner to root, and then start the script?</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I have some PHP code starting a script, but httpd dies or gets killed, I think that it takes my script with it.  Is there a way around this?</p>
  
  <p>Specifically, I'm on Fedora 10 with Apache 2 and PHP 5.</p>