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in reply to executing a program

Hi,

We really need more info.

  • Are you looking for the output of the program you are trying to run to be displayed in the webpage?
  • Is the program you are trying to run a perl script or an exe?
  • Can you use a FORM with method="POST" action="yourprog.pl" ?
  • Can you use Win32::Process or Win32::Spawn to launch you prog?
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    Re^2: executing a program
    by Mercio (Scribe) on Oct 22, 2004 at 19:19 UTC
      You guys have all been realy realy good help. To asnwer a few questions, I have no clue what a deamon process is and I do have access to the webserver, it's in my room. To answer AcidHawk's question,

    • No, I am not looking for the output in the webpage.
    • The program is a perl script.
    • I could us a form with method post, but i don't know what that would accomplish since i'm not sending data to the perl script and I want the perl script to run even when i close the webpage.
    • I will take a look at Win32::Process and Win32::Spawn and see, but I don't know why I couldn't. I just don't know what they are.

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        Posting code that you think is not working also helps us find issues quickly..

        Could it be that you need to specify the perl binary before the script.. ie 

        exec("C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe myscript.pl");

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