Who's timing it out? A webserver? If so, just read up on auto flushing ($|) and print some null bytes (\0) to the browser every now and then, to keep the connection alive.
Update: ... and you can read a column by merlyn on watching long processes through CGI.
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Thanks. I will check into this.
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What system needs to be told?
DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
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you mean what type of server? this program runs on different types of servers. Mostly Apache servers.
The process is rebuilding a database. Not a problem for a database that isn't huge. but the process timesout for databases of around 50k messages. Even though there is really nothing wrong with the program.
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oh my.. my reputation is 0! what would my mother say?
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