note 25936 deleted from ref.exec by tomsommer

Note Submitter: jseverson at myersinternet dot com ---- Worked on getting a perl script to run in the background for several hours, and after trying everything posted here on the boards, I came to the conclusion that none were precisely right. Here is the correct way to solve the problem assuming you want to append to your output log file. exec("perl file_system_path_to_script.cgi parameters >> /tmp/log_file.txt 2>&1 &");