Fellow Monks--

I have a (huge) maintenance script that is designed to run with command line parameters, and I'm trying to design an interface which will allow you to trigger the script from an HTML form, as an alternative to having to do it through a Unix command line or cron job.

So, I wrote a CGI script in Perl that contains a system call to the maintenance script, grabs the return code and prints it to the browser. Well, the maintenance script isn't executing, and system returns -1. The code looked something like this (CGI and print junk omitted):

...
my $output = system "perl product_gen.pl -rfpv";
...

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I thought it should work, but it doesn't. I tried replacing the system call with backticks, to no avail. The ultimate end goal would be to capture the maintenance script's output, and print that to the browser, but I'd settle for just getting the bugger to run!

As always, many thanks in advance for any assistance!

  higle

In reply to Executing another script from a CGI by higle

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