Does gqcam just generate a file intermittently? Then I don't see how ftp would interfere with it. You need to narrow down the problem, take out the ftp and see what happens if you just sleep in a loop. Maybe gqcam is not getting some environment variable or argument it needs?
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It generates some GUI code to display sliders and the cam image and whatnot. Opening it as another process will most likely be easier and much less painless.
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if I'm not mistaking, you're starting a GUI app (probably X-based) every X number of seconds... not quite handy unless that's exactly what you need. If you're not in front of your comp every X seconds, you'll end up closing Y number of app windows :)
In Re: Webcam 0.2 I use cqcam which is a command line tool.
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