Re: Help with Apache cgi

Ernest Ellingson wrote:
I'm trying to port a cgi program that runs fine under windows. But I can't seem to get what I want done under linux.

I want to send out emails to a list of subscribers. This program will take about 10 minutes to run.

In windows I've been using the start command. This actually starts a process and the cgi program continues to run a tells the user that emails are being sent. The start command lets the program run in the background. The cgi program doesn't have to wait for the mail program to finish.

I've tried
    z=fork do
        `mail progam`
    end
    Process.detatch(z)
    The program doesn't run.
I've tried writing a cronjobs file
    t=Time.now + 60
    File.open('/var/www/cronjobs'){|f| f.write("#{t.min} #{t.hour} etc")}
         `crontab /var/www/cronjobs`

crontab -u apache -l
lists the cron job at the right minute, hour, month, etc. but the cron job doesn't run.

The only thing I've seen in the Rubytalk archives is a suggestion to close stderr, stdin, and stdout in the child process when using fork. That didn't help either.

Does anyone have a clue how to do this using apache and ruby?

Thanks in advance.

Ernie
--
"Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out." (Richard Feynman) 

I've figured it out.

Thanks to Thomas Uehlinger and the developers of daemons http://daemons.rubyforge.org/
It's really simple!!!

Thanks again

Ernie
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