in reply to run a background process

For a CGI process, you need to fork, have the parent return a standard response, and have the child close STDOUT. You're not doing anything in the right order in your code. I have some examples of using CGI with fork in my columns: read more there and get some stealable code.

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Re^2: run a background process
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 14, 2005 at 23:53 UTC
    Thank you! I forgot completely about close *bonk self*

    This worked: 

    exit if fork();
close STDOUT;
close STDERR;
chdir './somewhere';
exec './somestuff';

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