At the risk of repeating what's have already been told by many others, we need to have more in-depht knowledge about what you consider "not working". In particular, I'd be interested into this: does your program continue after the system() when you DON'T put the ampersand character or does it continue smoothly?

When you call a program with the ampersand you're asking for this process to be run in background. This also means that your system() call returns immediately, leaving the process to do its work undisturbed. Now, some web server installation limit the total time of a running instance, so when the program you call WITHOUT the ampersand goes beyond these limits it will cause the calling process to be terminated by the web server. As a consequence, the spawned program itself would be terminated, and you'd miss your data inside the database.

Now, if this actually happens, your CGI script would die at the point you call system(), but unluckly we don't know what your "not working" means...

Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re: system() behaviour within object(class) instance by polettix
in thread system() behaviour within object(class) instance by Robot

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