Greetings Monks.

I have a cgi script written in perl called "chiefdaemon.cgi". This sits in my cgi-bin and runs fine. Within the cgi-bin I also have a perl script called program1.cgi.

The perl engine sits in /usr/bin/perl

chiefdaemon.cgi runs in the background on a timed loop and performs various housekeeping jobs on my site. Depending on the state of the site I want chiefdaemon.cgi to run program1.cgi (in certain circumstances).

I have worked out that I need to be using the exec function, but I cannot get it to work, and none of the on-line tutorials give working examples. In fact most seem to be a cut-and-paste job, as the wording is exactly the same (including the weak pun).

Can anyone tell this lowly initiate what code I should be using? I would be very grateful.

Yours in meditation,

The Whiteshark

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