Re: Calling mkisofs from perl cgi

What happens when you run your CGI script from the command line?

perl your-script.cgi > tmp.iso
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Do you get the 4 GB ISO file then (albeit with a little HTTP crud at the start of the file)? Or do you still only get 35 KB?

Also, have you tried using a full, absolute path to the directory you want an image for, rather than just "."?

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^2: Calling mkisofs from perl cgi by finfan (Acolyte) on Oct 05, 2012 at 18:43 UTC
Still the 35KB file. I have tried to use absolute paths, but it always fails. Never have seen that before. But relative path works fine running mkisofs from the shell.	[reply]
Re^2: Calling mkisofs from perl cgi by finfan (Acolyte) on Oct 05, 2012 at 18:45 UTC
Sorry, missed the first question. executed from command line, it generates the iso perfectly.	[reply]
Re^3: Calling mkisofs from perl cgi by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 05, 2012 at 19:16 UTC
If the CGI script runs OK at the command line then it's unlikely to be a Perl-specific problem. It's possible that Apache is putting an output size or time limit on your script. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^4: Calling mkisofs from perl cgi by finfan (Acolyte) on Oct 08, 2012 at 14:37 UTC
Hi tobyink, yes, I completely concur. Thanks for the help gents.	[reply]