Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:59:23 +1100 From: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Spawning an application with a shell in tow Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011126145236.03933008@mail.ideal.net.au>
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Hi,
I have a bit of a problem that ive narrowed it down to a small part. I have
a perl script that needs to spawn off the expect application.
This works great when I execute it from command line on my FreeBSD box, but
when I try and launch it from my cgi-bin from the web server (apache)
expect barfs because it doesnt have a shell (expect needs a loaded shell to
work properly).
Is there any way to spawn off my command so that it utilises a shell, or
some sort of shell equivilant so expect can run... This is how im
executing the script....
$foo = `/usr/local/bin/expect /scripts/bar.exp Arg1 Arg2`;
When I check the apache error logs I get this....
can't read "env(SHELL)": no such variable while executing "spawn $env(SHELL)"
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Cheers
Chris
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