I've posted something similar to this already, but now I'm more sure of what I'm asking.
Basically I've a CGI script, that when executed by the user, I want to call another script that does a very long running task (10 hours +) and print a message on the screen saying that the user will be emailed on completion of the very long task. The script executing the very long task will then email the user on completion. So far I have something like this (leaving out the obvious)... CGI script: pid = subprocess.Popen(["python", "spawn.py"]).pid print "Thanks you will be emailed on completion" Spawn.py script: doVeryLongCalc() emailUser() Basically the problem with this is that the cgi script page in the browser keeps on acting as if its loading until the Spawn.py script is finished executing. Somehow apache "knows" that the spawned process is still running in the background. So I'm basically asking if I can somehow spawn a script that will be completely independent of its parent script? So Apache doesn't know its running and the page finishes loading? Thanks if anyone can help... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
