Hi Roger,
Thanks for the reply. I was able to implement the locking mechanism before and I've had no problems. It was made sure that the script was generating only one report at a time. This was done using the batch job that was scheduled as I've said before.
So if the batch has found one request now, and it is still running during the next time frame, it will ignore the request. It will proceed only when its finished.
My question is to trigger the generate_report.pl script via cgi instead of the batch job. Thing is the cgi will show the progress of generate_report.pl (if its not already running) forever! and it would time out or give some error.
Thanks again!

In reply to Re: (2) Launch background perl script from CGI by Anonymous Monk
in thread Launch background perl script from CGI by Anonymous Monk

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