Re: [webmin-devel] Progressive commands

David Drayton ha scritto:
> 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);
>   
If you have it in background when the process is killed? :)

One short solution is: you can write the ping output to a FIFO or a temp 
file then read it with "tail -f"

Regards, Antonio Gallo


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