[wellylug] Setting a process going through apache

[Ian Beardslee]

Hi geniuses,

This could be slightly off topic, but the apache server is running on
linux (slackware of course, what else is there?)

I have an apache web server serving up an browser interface to our
membership system.  I can get simple (and some complex) reports working
and can even get them emailed to people.

But there are a couple of complex queries and reports that take a wee
while to run and when I try to run them from the browser something seems
to timeout and they don't complete.

So, how can I use the browser to get apache to get a perl script running
as a seperate process in the background?  You know, click 'go' and it
comes back saying your report should be in your inbox in 10 minutes type
thing?

Email me off list if you want,

Cheers muchly in advance,

Ian