On 8/2/05, Ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I tried
> > >
> > > exec("command");
> > > and also
> > > system("command &");
> > >
> > > Niether seemed to work, for the reason which I assume is, since it is a
> CGI
> > > script and webserver waits until this script exits and then displays the
> > > results to the browser. What was thought to be a simple thing is
> becoming a
> > > huge problem.
> >
> > What does it do exactly? Does it hang? What are the permissions on
> > this other perl script? Does the user the cgi script is running as
> > (presumably 'nobody') have permission to execute that script?
> >
>
> Yes the user cgi script is running have permissions to execute that
> script.......
>
> Infact with the above mentioned methods I am able to execute the script
> very well but my cgi script is waiting until it is getting finished, which I
> dont want.
>
> I only want my cgi script to call the external perl script and exit.
You're going to need to write a shell script that calls your program like so:
CGI:
system('/path/to/start_program.sh')
SH:
perl /path/to/perl_script.pl &
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