in reply to Perl CGI exit

You might try exit(0), since that's a successful exit, or just exit with no argument (which is the same thing).

Is it the case that you want to launch the external application and then exit while it's running? In that case, you need to fork first.

Update: You might want to see also:

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Re^2: Perl CGI exit
by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2007 at 13:28 UTC
    Basically I want to launch the application and leave it open and running and exit the cgi in the background. I believe that's what your asking.