This doesn't seem to be working for me. This is the code I have now: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<END_OF_PAGE;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
    <TITLE>Waiting</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
    <P> Waiting Some more </P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
END_OF_PAGE

reopen STDOUT;
reopen STDERR;

system "perl sleep.pl > out ";

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The sleeping program is (text book style): 
use strict;
use warnings;
print "going to sleep\n";
my $i = 0;
while ($i<20){
    sleep (1);
    print "zzz\n";
    $i++;
}
print "finished my beauty sleep\n";

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I've also tried to close and the reopen the output streams. I still can't seem to get anything to go to the log file.
I'm not sure how to use fork() for another process but I can look it up. The question is whether it will fix this problem.
Any ideas?

In reply to Re^4: CGI and Background Processes by mrguy123
in thread CGI and Background Processes by mrguy123

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