in reply to The System function and its usage

You're passing "-ExcelFile $excel_file" as a single argument to the execvp() call (if that's even applicable under win32). You can either pass a single string to system() or you must pass each argument as a single string... my @args = ($ccupdate_db, "-ExcelFile", $excel_file, "-q")

Additionally, check the server error logfile. It's likely your command line app spewed forth errors into that file when it failed to work as expected.

-Paul

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Re: The System function and its usage
by Structed (Novice) on Sep 28, 2007 at 15:34 UTC
    You are my personal superheroes! In the log I found a permission denied statement... which belonged to the other program I wanted to call. This program wanted to write a log into a write-protected dir... Thank you so much!
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      Also note that the shell environment (i.e., envars) under which you make your system call will be very different between interactive command line and CGI.
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