Re^3: run a background process

Then smell of XY here: (nearly) no experience with cgi myself, but do you really want your cgi process to fork a background running task and then exit?

Maybe giving a peek into perlipc may give you some ideas about other ways to accomplish what you're really after...

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Re^4: run a background process by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2005 at 00:28 UTC
The thing is: I run a mud, and lately the server has been rebooting every few days. The server admin won't add my mud to the crontab or something to make it start along with the server, so I devised this, to allow any of my players to startup the mud in these cases. Now a single click can launch the game. Of course, it will check whether the game is already running (and some other things) to prevent abuse.	[reply]
Re^5: run a background process by blazar (Canon) on Jul 15, 2005 at 07:47 UTC
Then I don't see why a classic fork+exec shouldn't do it and I guess I can't be of more help to you than this, sorry...	[reply]
Re^6: run a background process by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2005 at 09:28 UTC
It's ok, problem solved. I just needed to close stdin and stdout for the cgi stuff to end. And had to use 'setsid' or the program dies whenever the web server goes down.	[reply]