Hey Folks,

I'm greatly hoping someone can indicate what precisely I am doing wrong with the following code. I believe the problem lies in the manner in which my fork() and exec() are interacting. The code is as follows: 

sub do_work {
        my($query) = @_;

        return if( $query->param('password') ne 'pass' );

        if($query->param('which_bot') eq 'chump') {

                if($pid = fork()) {
                        return;
                } elsif(defined $pid) {
                        my @args = ("/bin/killall", "-TERM", "python")
+;
                        #system(@args);

                        exec('/usr/bin/python /usr/share/chump-1.3/src
+/dailychumpbot.py -i -s "neutron.oftc.net" -n chumpy --channel="#iitl
+ug" -d /httpd/htdocs/www/chump -e /chump/churn_html.xsl');
                        exit;
                }
        }

}

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The child process does indeed execute the exec, and a python process begins. Within a second, or so (the script ends shortly after this do_work() function), the python execution ends ... this should not be as it is executing a bot that should be persistent.

Let me give everyone a preemptive thanks for your assitance with this!

Cheers,

Lacertus


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In reply to CGI fork() Difficulty by lacertus

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