Thanks Edan.

Well, I have done the project now, but take this into consideration for the upgrade - which I am already thinking about. My solution was to open a tiny browser window, make it the same colour as the background of the web page, and leave it running "hidden". A real cludge I know, but I really needed to move on here.
Thanks for the advice anyway
Couple of questions though:
  1. How do I go about re-opening STD(IN|OUT|ERR)?
  2. If I close STDOUT, how do I get hold of my STDOUT from the perl script or more importantly the system call?

merlyn gave me a useful link to his long-running CGI process, but it did not work as I expected.
I rather expected that every couple of seconds it would return, and update the page.
Instead, it waited till the traceroute completed altogther before giving the results.
I wondered whether this had to do with running it under Apache 2 rather than 1.3?
Have you any comments on his long-running process?

Thanks for your help though
Cheers
Hambo

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Closing parent CGI after fork() by hambo
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