Hi monks, I have a system command which needs to be run browser. I am using Perl CGI to build the web interface. However, I am running

system("<some command which takes long to complete> &");
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When using it via web, it works but, the web interface seems to waiting for the command to complete. Is there a way to shoot off a long running command w/out having the browser waiting/apache to timeout on it.

Just curious, would exec work, since it does not bother to return the status of it. Like, what's in $?. Will try it out once I get home.