Hi all,

I have a perl script that schedules user-defined jobs. It kicks off a CGI on other servers (which is the same CGI on each server) at different times of the day (to spread the processing among several servers). All the CGI does is start a perl script on its server (which may then spend a few hours processing).

The problem is that my perl schedule script wants to wait for the CGI to exit before executing the same CGI with another job. I really need an exit status or something so the scheduler can go on with the other jobs.

I tried the following:
- made the CGI run the processing script on the server with a call to "system ('command &') to put it in the background
- made the CGI and processing script into one big script with a fork, then exit the parent

But the scheduler is still hanging around for it to exit in either case. I do not have the 'at' command on the server to try that out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to running another script without waiting by crammed_in

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