I need to make a system call within a cgi script, and I am having some trouble. I know that I have done this before, but for some reason, when I make the call, things hang, and the debug just before my system call gets printed, but the debug after never gets printed.

I made s short .pl script, which works fine when I call "perl system.pl" at the command prompt.
system.pl:
#!/usr/local/bin/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w
my $SUCCESS = 0;

my $cmd = "notepad.exe \"error.log\"";
(system($cmd) == $SUCCESS) or print("Notepad failed: $!\n");

Now, within the confines of my cgi script (running win32 with apache), I am trying ($ME is defined to "filename.cgi:"): don_common'log_to_file($msg_log, "$ME about to make notepad call");
my $cmd = "notepad.exe \"error.log\"";
(system($cmd) == $SUCCESS) or don_common'log_to_file("notepad failed: $!\n");
don_common'log_to_file($msg_log, "$ME just made notepad call");

In my log file, I get the following output:
filename.cgi: about to make notepad call

Any ideas? I even tried to put a copy of notepad.exe in my cgi-bin directory. The error.log is also in the same directory.

Thanks,

-Kevin

In reply to System call within cgi script by pmcaveman

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