I built a web interface for my perl script that gathers hardware address from switches, and everything works well, except when I tried working out an area for requesting a new switch to be included and added to the database.

PHP executes the script but then waits for the script to respond, and then dies, because of the length of time it takes for the script perl script to finish.

What I need is for a perl script, csh, ksh, ect, to be called instead and fork to the perl script, or in some other way, start the perl script NOT AS A CHILD PROCESS.

Because I am not so good at forking and the like in perl, I am hoping soimeone is and can come up with a solution.

The script to be run is called snmpwdr, the script that starts it needs to quit as soon as it starts it, and return "DONE" or some other simple text.

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