Dearest Monks,

I have been trying to run a command line program from a perl CGI script.

The following attempts all work if I run the script from the commandline, but fail if I access it through the web (they return nothing (some kind of timeout maybe??))

1. 
print `/opt/csw/bin/octave -qfH < $filename`;

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2. 
open (OCTAVE, "| /opt/csw/bin/octave -qfH < $filename") or die "Can't 
+open pipe: $!\n";
while(<OCTAVE>){
    print $_;
}
close(OCTAVE) or die "Couldn't close octave: $!";

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The latter script print the "Couldn't close..." error message when run from the web server.

Once again they work fine when run from the command line.

What is going on monks, I am completly befuddled.

-maslofer

In reply to Running Command Line Programs from a CGI Script by maslofer

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