Hi All
I am running a cgi script which calls another perl script which takes long time to run.I am running this time consuming script in the background. Now the problem is the cgi scripts keeps on running in the browser till the background script runs. I want to kill this parent cgi script and let the background script running 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI;
use strict;

my $query = new CGI;
my $DirName =$query->param("dir");
my $maxSeqLen=$query->param("maxSeqLen");
my $minSeqLen=$query->param("minSeqLen");
my $WindowSize=$query->param("WindowSize");
my $Email=$query->param("email");
print $query->header();
my $cmd=" /var/www/cgi-bin/nuScore/ProcessLongData.pl $DirName $maxSeq
+Len $minSeqLen $WindowSize $Email &";
system($cmd);

print "<html>\n";
print "<head>\n";
print "<title>nuScore</title>\n";
print "<body>\n";
print "<table width='641' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' a
+lign='left'>\n";
print "<tr> <td>Thank you for submiting your email address. Sequences 
+will be processed and the link to results page will be sent by email.
+<br>< </td> </tr>\n";
print "<hr></table></body></html>\n";

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In reply to How can I kill pid of parent and keep that of child alive by advait

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