First off, I'm fairly new to perl, so please don't crucify me for bad coding practice, etc. My problem is as such: I've got a script that takes in data from an html form, dumps a feild to a file, and executes gpg to encrypt it. I can dump to file, but it doesn't seem that the encryption is working... It works if I run the script locally on the machine (even as the nobody user, which apache uses to run the script), but not as the CGI. Any ideas? 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$gpgpath = "/usr/bin/gpg";
$gpguser = "xxxxxxxx\@xxxxxxxxx.com";

print "Content-Type: text/html\n";

print "<html>\n<body>\n";

$stdin = <STDIN>;

$stdin =~ s/\+/ /g;

%form = split(/=|&/, $stdin);

$filenum = int(rand 50) + 1;

open(OUTMESSAGE, ">tmpMessages/$filenum"); 
    
while (($name, $value) = each %form)
{   
        $value =~ s/%([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
        $form{"$name"} = $value;
}

print OUTMESSAGE $form{'body'};

close OUTMESSAGE;

$gpgcommand = "$gpgpath --batch --always-trust --eatr -a -r $gpguser -
+o tmpMessages/$filenum.enc -e";
print $gpgcommand;

print `$gpgcommand`;

print "</body>\n</html>\n";

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when executed, the $gpgcommand is printed out, and works if I cut-and-paste the command into a terminal, but not through the perl script. Is this maybe an apache configuration issue?

In reply to CGI won't execute GPG properly... by eoPh

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