Re: running process from webmin - times-out?

[Diego M. <dmo...@ya...>]

Jamie,

exactly,  the process does produce alot of output in
the shell.  sometimes hours of output.

So I should use the following command?  
system("/usr/local/excute/fire >/dev/null 
2>&1 </dev/null &");



Diego

--- Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> >  
> > 
> > Diego
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> >     From: Support <mailto:su...@ea...>
> > 
> >     To: web...@li...
> >     <mailto:web...@li...>
> > 
> >     Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:43 PM
> > 
> >     Subject: running process from webmin -
> times-out?
> > 
> >     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`;"
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     what am i doing wrong?
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     thanks,
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     Diego
> > 
> > 
> >      
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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