Okay forgive me if I have bad formatting as it's only my second post... What I'm trying to do: When I click a link, I want it to run a batch file to install a program on a server, and return a result upon installation failure or success. The Problem: I first wrote this script to be executed through the command line, so when I had to make some changes to make it work through a web browser. The batch file takes about five minutes to complete, so I had to prevent the browser to time out. Here's my code: 

#!perl -w

use CGI;
$c = new CGI();
print $c->header();

$| = 1;

### set up an alarm
    $timeout = 7*60; # apache normally times out after 5 min
    print "<!--\n";  # hide output
    $SIG{ALRM} = sub{ print ".\n"; alarm($timeout); };
    # the timeout will send something to the browser every
    # now and then to keep it from timing out

    alarm($timeout);
    print "Installing Dell Open Manage";
    &install_open_manage();
    alarm(0);
    print "-->\n";  # don't need to hide output anymore

        print $result;
        
        <---- do other stuff here ---->

        exit(); 

sub install_open_manage {
    $host = "hostA";


    print "\n$count: Checking for local RAC configuration.<br>";
        sleep(1);
        $result = `psexec \\\\$host -u location\\admin -p password \\\
+\host01\\OpenManage\\setup_sibar.bat 2>&1`;
        return $result;
}

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The script runs, and the program is installed, but the results and the stuff after it is not printed.
***EDIT Still no luck. I added  start before the psexec and redirected the output to a text file, however nothing gets written to the file. One thing i noticed is that if I do something other than an install in the install_open_manage subroutine (such as a sleep(100) and a 'dir' command) my script works fine.

In reply to Installing a program on a remote server through a web browser. by khangol

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