Hi monks,

I was wondering if there is a way for me to catch the output of a script that I exec(). I've essentially got a daemon process that will fork off and exec() scripts, catches their termination signals and continues on its way. Is there any way, without modifying the scripts that are being exec()'d, that the daemon process can catch any output to STDOUT or STDERR that the fork/exec()'d scripts produce?

I've tried redirecting STDOUT/STDERR to a scalar within the child segment, prior to the exec call, but that information is lost when the child terminates (its copy of the variable is local to its branch of the fork, as I understand it).

Is there any way around this? Any advice is welcome.

Thanks

In reply to Exec'ing and output by Anonymous Monk

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