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
On 8/2/05, Ram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Let's try this again :) You were most of the way there the first time,
and the shell script thing I suggested is unnecessary.
system(command /dev/null ); # works for me
Specifically:
sleep.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$|++;
print STDERR time. start of sleep\n;
sleep(5);
print STDERR time.
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.
On 8/2/05, Ram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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
