Show progress of a separate perl script

[rpack78]

I have a CGI web page that has a button on it. When you click it, I want to fire off a perl script that updates a bunch of databases. The perl script takes about 4 minutes to run. Currently I am using the system() command to run the script. Doing it this way causes the page to hang while the script is running. Eventually I get a CGI timeout. How can I execute the script and show a progress bar or at least a "Please wait" screen and avoid a timeout? Somehow I need to start a separate process or something. Any help would be appreciated.

Ryan

 

[KevinADC]

look into fork() or exec()

 

[mlibeson]

Also, Parallel::ForkManager


Michael Libeson