Dear Perl monks,

I have a Perl script that I use to extract some info from my webserver. The script works great on the command line. It takes a username as an argument and it returns few lines of output such as below:

./whois.pl hmb104

#========================================================
#        info for [hmb104]
# Time: Sun Sep  2 18:18:38 CDT 2012
#========================================================
ID: hmb104  home: /home/usr/hmb104
----------------------------------------------------------
usage: 45.2    Dynamic: 33
----------------------------------------------------------
End of report

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The script returns print() statements with some variables. I would like to know how to make the script print the output to a webpage. I have tried to exec() the script in PHP but for userid problems it didn't work. How I can make the script redirect output to html document?

The script is located in "server1" and the webserver is "server2". I created a PGP key so I can execute the script from server2 without any problem.

I appreciate the input

In reply to Simple Perl print() output redirect to html/webpage. by hmb104

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