How do you run a seperate Perl program when another program is accessed?

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Now for my question:-) I want to kick off a seperate perl program to run on its own when another perl program is accessed via an apache cgi hit. Let call the prgram that apache calls on 'parta.cgi' and the program I want to run each time it is accessed 'partb.pl'. The second program runs an Excel export from a database. I'm self learned and have lots of holes in my knowledge. Please help me out, I should know how to do this.

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Re: How do you run a seperate Perl program when another program is accessed? by mrborisguy (Hermit) on Dec 25, 2005 at 05:02 UTC
You're going to want to look into fork. -Bryan	[reply]
Re: How do you run a seperate Perl program when another program is accessed? by revdiablo (Prior) on Dec 25, 2005 at 08:05 UTC
You're in luck my friend, because our good friend merlyn has an article about this very topic.	[reply]