Re: how to keep tracking the system command in cgi

[samizdat]

You can run a ps -ax command and grep for your command's name in the returned output. You could also, if you need intermediate results, write (or append) progress indicators to a log file and check that file's contents.

For example,

• Create Directory... write 'S1' to log file
• Write First File... write 'S2' to log file
• Write 2nd File... write 'S3' to log file
• Write last File... write 'Sx' to log file

Read the file and RegEx for /Sx/. Some variant of this should help you. You could also use a SHM drop-box or other in-memory variant.