Keeping a child process alive thru a restart?

[mikeettm]

Does anyone know a way that I can have a user initiate a child process that can survive a restart/shutdown of apache?

I tried having the CGI do a nohup (with trailing &) but when apache is shutdown, my program gets terminated as well.

Thanks for any insights!!

Mike K.

 

[sleipnir214]

I don't know if this will work, but it might be a useful line of inquiry.

Create a cgi script that will run the app via atd.

I use that to restart my sshd on a server when I have to modify ssh's config file while I'm logged in via ssh. I set atd to restart the app in a minute or so then logout.