RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Rajat Sharma
} -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Slive Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:19 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed On 7/5/06, Rajat Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > T

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Joshua Slive
On 7/5/06, Rajat Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Jashua, but I am on windows and cannot redirect to /dev/null It doesn't matter how you do it. The point is to close all three file descriptors on the forked process. Joshua. -

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Rajat Sharma
Thanks Jashua, but I am on windows and cannot redirect to /dev/null Still looking From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Joshua Slive Sent: Wed 7/5/2006 12:04 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed On 7/5/06

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
d IE dislays the new page. Interestingly, it is not helping Raj -Original Message- From: Hugh Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:29 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed Is there really a need to use for

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Joshua Slive
On 7/5/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joshua Slive wrote: > On 7/5/06, Rajat Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My cgi script needs to do some dirty work. User is supposed to be >> notified >> via email when the job is done. > >> Issue is that the after submit of the page

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Rajat Sharma
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:29 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed Is there really a need to use forking? Instead, how about: 1. CGI prints instant reply. 2. CGI execs long job (you *are* using exec and not system,

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Rajat Sharma
code so this script is put into another .pl. The print outputs into the CONSOLE since apache does not handle it anymore. It doesn't help :-( Raj -Original Message- From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:23 AM To: users@httpd.apache.o

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Hugh Williams
Is there really a need to use forking? Instead, how about: 1. CGI prints instant reply. 2. CGI execs long job (you *are* using exec and not system, right?), and exits. 3. long job sends mail (exec or system or a subroutine) when it's done. You'd need to pass $loginid to the long job of

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Joshua Slive wrote: On 7/5/06, Rajat Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My cgi script needs to do some dirty work. User is supposed to be notified via email when the job is done. Issue is that the after submit of the page, the IE still keeps loading the page until the long\dirty job is over

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Joshua Slive
On 7/5/06, Rajat Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My cgi script needs to do some dirty work. User is supposed to be notified via email when the job is done. Issue is that the after submit of the page, the IE still keeps loading the page until the long\dirty job is over. How can I make lin

[EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI help on apache needed

2006-07-05 Thread Rajat Sharma
Hi,   My cgi script needs to do some dirty work. User is supposed to be notified via email when the job is done.   Here is the use case   a)   user clicks submit on a form to start the job b)   An instant message is thrown back to the user saying the job has started successf