I have a situation where a CGI script has to start an independent perl
script and exit without capturing the output or waiting for the exit code.
It doesnt make any practicle sense to me as this perl script takes good 6
hours to run and my CGI script obviously shouldnt keep the user waiting.
exec command doesnt seem to work, nor system command combined with
ampersand(&) in command.
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.
Thanks in advance
