Basically, I have a php script that generates a web page, and I would like to send its output to a file (say, index.html).The problem is that php only runs as user nobody, and I can't have chmod ...

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I also looked at signals. This seems to work well enough when I run PHP scripts through the command line, but somehow the signals never reach the scripts when they run through the web server.

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