kerki
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Apr 23, 2000, 10:15 AM
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spawning processes in cgi-bin
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I'm having trouble getting my script to spawn a process (this process needs to output to a file). I would like my forknew.pl script to call profile.pl (which might take a long time to run) and return with a message saying the process has started. The following script runs perfect on the server (i.e. when I type in forknew.pl, it spawns profile.pl and is able to create the output file), but when I use my browser to run it, the output file isn't generated. I've changed all the permissions to 777 for both my cgi-bin and the .pl files.
Here's the listing to forknew.pl:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5
$time = time().".rpt";
$http = "http://www.somewebsite.com/";
$child_id = fork();
die "fork failed: $!" unless defined $child_id;
if ($child_id)
{
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
waitpid($child_id,0);
print "<html>\n<head><title>Forking new process</title></head>\n<body>\n<h1>The parent reaped child $child_id, with status $?</h1>\n</body>\n</html>\n";
} else
{
exec "profile.pl -b -l 2 -o $time $http" | | die "Exec $!";
exit 0;
}
Help!
Thanks.
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