I'm working on a cgi script that basically, upon running it, runs a separate script in the background, and displays a message saying "Script is running. Should be done soon." on the web browser and... that's it. The browser can be closed, and the script will continue to run in the background. Here's the jest of what I have, but... The problem is that it doesn't work. When you run it, it does a system() call to run the script, and then waits for completion, where it then displays "Script is running. Should be done soon.". I tried using exec() instead but that didn't work either. Also tried adding & to the end of the command, didn't help.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI qw(:cgi-lib :cgi :html2);
$SIG{CHLD}='IGNORE';
my $pid=fork();
if($pid) {
system "/www/scripts/process_list.pl"; # Run script in background
} else {
# Print confirmation script to browser, that's it
print header."<html><body>Script is running. Should be done
soon.</body></html>";
}Any ideas on how to make this work properly?? This is running on Solaris 8 with apache, if it matters at all. Thanks
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