You may want to look at Apache2::SubProcess. Basically you just need to
use POSIX 'setsid' (thats what Proc::Daemon uses too). just dont forget to detach stdin/stdout/stderr, and chdir '/' in the daemonized process to avoid problems. Enno On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Jens Gassmann wrote: > Hi, > > our CMS create sometimes long runnig tasks. This Tasks we start with the > following code: > > `/usr/bin/perl -e 'use Modul; Modul->function($arg);' > /dev/null &`; > > This works. Apache returns the html-page and the long running function > goes into the background. But if we restart Apache all childs and our > long running function was killed :-( > > Could i daemonize the long running process to be sure that he wasn't > killed by a apache restart? Maybe with Proc::Daemon. > > Is the a good solution or somebody knows a better way to do it? > > > Jens > > > > > > >
