[agnosti]

Hi all,

I need to execute a long time procedure from a cgi(perl) script. This isn't efficient cause I can't want for a long time for the script to end.

I tried to create a .pl script which does the whole job, so I call this script from my cgi using the system command. This, returns me a html page saying that the process started, I check in the server that the processes indeed started, but if I close the browser, the script ends abnormally.

I just need a way, to ensure that the script will be running until the end in the system, even though I close the browser window.

How can I do this?


thanks

[Skeleton Man]

Hi,

Try this:

Code:

 $cmd = 'some command'; exec($cmd);

or this:

Code:

 $cmd = 'some command'; system("$cmd &");

The first *should* execute the command and not hang around waiting for it to finish. The second runs the command in the background (using "&"), and should have the same effect.