Look ... really the script runs fine as apache. 
[root@dell01 html]# finger apache
Login: apache                           Name: Apache
Directory: /var/www                     Shell: /sbin/nologin
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.
[root@dell01 html]# chsh apache
Changing shell for apache.
New shell [/sbin/nologin]: /bin/sh
Shell changed.
[root@dell01 html]# cd ../cgi-bin/
[root@dell01 cgi-bin]# ./listDisc.pl
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<title>Welcome</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
</head>
<body>
<table border=1>
<tr><th>Files on this harddrive</th></tr>
<tr><td>.</td></tr>
<tr><td>..</td></tr>
<tr><td>.Trashes</td></tr>
<tr><td>._.Trashes</td></tr>
<tr><td>DIR1</td></tr>
<tr><td>THEATRE</td></tr>
<tr><td>Recycled</td></tr>
<tr><td>System Volume Information</td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>[root@dell01 cgi-bin]#

[download]
... I was hoping someone here would have some experience with CGI and Apache web server, but that does not appear to be the case. True it may not be a Perl issue it looks to me to be a Apache issue. It is not a "can't run a script as another user' issue thanks for nothing.

In reply to Re^2: A CGI script to list the files on my external harddrive by Anonymous Monk
in thread A CGI script to list the files on my external harddrive by Anonymous Monk

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