You can do just about anything even–

and some sort of event handler, I guess, so that I can start/stop the processes by just changing the checkbox instead of having to "submit" the form.

could be done with Ajax + Perl. But you are talking about a monstrous amount of code (for example, you’d might need to daemonize a bunch of stuff unless for polling you're willing to do slower log/output parsing) with lots of inherent security issues (if it can go bad on the shell, it can be asked to go bad from the CGI) if you’re going to try to control a bunch of stuff.

I agree with dhoss. There are things already out there which are nice and could be tailored if needed.

In reply to Re: CGI "control panel" app by Your Mother
in thread CGI "control panel" app by mojodaddy

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