Hi All,

I want to access all the changes submitted in perforce and to display in the web page for a particular user. CGI Script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use CGI;
$cgi = CGI->new;
print $cgi->header;

print <<EndOfHTML;
<form action="post.cgi" method="POST">
 <table>
   <tr><td>Perforce User</td>
     <td><select size="1" name="user">
      <option name="antoine">antoine</option></select>
     </td></tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Start Date</td><td><input name=startdate></td>
   </tr><tr>
      <td>End Date</td><td><input name=enddate></td>
    </tr><tr>
     <td colspan=2 align=\"center\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Sub
+mit\"></td>
    </tr></table></form>";
EndOfHTML

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post.cgi:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI;
$ENV{ 'PATH' } = '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin';
delete @ENV{ 'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV' };

print header;
my %form;
foreach my $p (param()) {
    $form{$p} = param($p);
}
my $user = $form{'user'};
my $output = system ("sudo -i -u avinodh p4 changes -u $user > /tmp/$u
+ser");
print $output;
print "The active user is: ", `whoami`;
print end_html;

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When we execute the script in the browser it is giving output as "256The active user is: www-data". Please provide your inputs. Thank You Antoine.

In reply to How to execute a shell command from a CGI script by antovinraj

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