>>c chan wrote:
>>> A simple system call like system("app & > /dev/nuil ") in a CGI
>>> aborts the CGI without leaving any status in the error_log. Did
>>> anyone experence anything like this?
>>
>>No. Experiment with it. Take the & off. Take the STDOUT redirection
>>off. See what causes it.
>
>Thanks for the suggestion, I willl try that today.
I removed the '&', and the system call turns out finished running except with
STDOUT disabled. The sub scripts may have the string '> /dev/null' appended in
the system call which re-routed all output to /dev/null.
I will try to experiment restoring STDOUT as suggested by the document.
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#STDIN__STDOUT_and_STDERR_streams
- Clement
