Re^2: Can the username be represented differently ?

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. It's been a few mths since I used Perl, the file is CMOD to 744 like the other perl files, I upload it in ascii, yet keep getting the old "premature end of script headers" msg. Do I need any modules to run this ?

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

$name = 'myusername';
$uid = getpwnam($name);
print "$uid: $uid;
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Peter

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Re^3: Can the username be represented differently ? by atcroft (Abbot) on Jun 28, 2004 at 05:57 UTC
744 translate to "rwxr--r--", but if you are running it as a CGI for testing you probably need it set as 755 ("rwxr-xr-x"). Also, in such a case, you likely want to include `$\|=1;` after the `#!/usr/bin/perl -wT` line. You may also want to check the webserver error log to see if there is anything else occurring. Hope that helps.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Can the username be represented differently ? by peterr (Scribe) on Jun 28, 2004 at 06:13 UTC
The code now looks like this `#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT $\|=1; $name = 'myusername'; $uid = getpwnam($name); print "$uid: $uid;` [download] but I'm still getting the 500 msg in the browser, and the web logs say "Premature end of script headers: /home/myusername/cgi-bin/getvars1.pl I think I had better check the forums at the hosts to see if anything has changed since last I used Perl, however I did just run FormMail.pl from the same path, it has a 744 and it worked just fine ?? Thanks, Peter	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Can the username be represented differently ? by peterr (Scribe) on Jun 28, 2004 at 06:36 UTC
The browser output is now: uid: 32149 Thanks, Peter	[reply]