[webmin-devel] Progressive commands

[David D. <ddr...@pu...>]

Hey guys,

I have to run a command that:
a) displays progressive output as it runs, and
b) continues to run, even if the user moves to another page

I have tried the code below, which satisfies (a) but I noticed that when I went to another page, it would stop running and so doesn't satisfy (b) as well. Note that I am only using ping as a test.

open(CMD, "ping 127.0.0.1 2>&1 |");
while(<CMD>) {
	print $_;
}
close(CMD);

Cheers,
David