Re: running process from webmin - times-out?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Support wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> Additional information regarding "running process from webmin - 
> times-out?"   question
> 
> the process actually only runs for about  6:55-6:56 minutes then freezes 
> until I "kill -9" the process.


Does this process produce a lot of output when you run it from the
shell prompt?


> the parent process is: 
> 
> /usr/bin/perl-w/usr/local/lib/webmin/howdy_index/c.cgi ....
> 
> shouldn't it be running under /sbin/init ...


No, because webmin is still waiting for output from the
process as you are running it within backquotes. For a long-running
command, it may be better to put it in the background with
code like  system("/usr/local/excute/fire >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &");
assuming you don't want to get the output.

  - Jamie


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> Diego
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>     Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:43 PM
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>     Subject: running process from webmin - times-out?
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>     Hello,
> 
>     I am developing a module, which runs a unix program.  The progam
>     works fine from unix shell, or from Webmin if the process is short. 
>     After about 20 minutes I notice that the process is still running,
>     but is not doing anything "idle" or frozen, and i must kill the
>     process.  If I leave the computer overnight, I come back to " no
>     more SWAP space" errors, the computer locked and must restart. 
> 
>     I am using the following command "my
>     $results=`/usr/local/excute/fire`;"
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>     what am i doing wrong?
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>     thanks,
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>     Diego
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