in reply to system command not working after connection with cgi breaks

Try these two things:

1. Remove the fork && exit at the end of your script - you don't need it.

2. On all of your system() commands, redirect STDOUT to a file or /dev/null. This especially is important for commands executed in the background like the last one you perform just before exiting.

Without #2, the server will never finish sending the response to your browser, and this might be causing your browser to time-out the connection which might have something to do with your problem.

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Re^2: system command not working after connection with cgi breaks
by advait (Beadle) on Jun 23, 2008 at 18:04 UTC
    Thank you for the reply. I have removed fork and exit and I am using close(STDOUT)
    still not working...facing same problem
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      To elaborate, you should append " >/dev/null" to your system command strings (but in the last case insert it before the &).

      Here's some basics on I/O redirection: Standard Input and Output Redirection

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      You're still having problems because you didn't do what you were asked to do. pc88mixer asked you to redirect stdout in the system call to something else, like /dev/null, so that the output was not 'attached' to the cgi process. Closing stdout in the perl script isn't the same thing.

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