How to keep a php script from timing out because of a long mysql query

Question

I have an update query being run by a cron task that\'s timing out. The query takes, on average, five minutes to execute when executed in navicat.

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Answer 1

Assuming you are on linux, Debian based systems have separate configurations for mod_php/php cgi and php-cli. This shouldn't be too difficult to set up on a different linux system that doesn't separate cgi/cli configuration.

Once you have separate configs, I would adjust your php cli configuration. Disable safe mode and any time limits and ram limits.