Get cgi script to begin execution of another script...

[Sion Arrowsmith]

sophie_newbie  <paulgeeleher at gmail.com> wrote:
>Basically I've a CGI script, that when executed by the user, I want to
>call another script that does a very long running task (10 hours +)
>and print a message on the screen saying that the user will be emailed
>on completion of the very long task. The script executing the very
>long task will then email the user on completion.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/278731
was helpful to me in solving this problem.

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