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Hrm... yeah... try putting this in the perl script you are calling... 
fork && exit(); #background process
close(STDOUT);
close(STDERR);
close(STDIN);

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see if that detaches it... now you should not need th > /dev/null &

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Re: Re: Re: Re: forking, no child waiting.
by PyroX (Pilgrim) on Sep 20, 2001 at 22:13 UTC
    Oh man,,,,

    I was all happy, and then I tried it, it worked great when running it from the prompt, but still just kind-of dies when done from the php app. I am hating this part! Here is where I am calling my perl script: 
    $run="snmp-wdr -c mrtgtest $request &";<BR>
echo "<BR>COMMAND SENT: $run<BR>";<BR>
$setsys=system($run);<BR>

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    DANG!
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      In addition to the above, you may need to call setpgrp(). See "perldoc -q daemon" for a bit more information.

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      Well... you've got me...

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