From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 11:12:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-241-155.elk.frontiernet.net [207.173.241.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB4FF37B4B7 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:11:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.248]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 101F3EE65A; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:11:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00ce01c1d430$d748dd80$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Paul Everlund" Cc: "Dan Nelson" , "Walter Hop" , , References: <3C9E0754.2010104@verizon.net> <006201c1d423$ee01be00$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <200203251840.33315@silver.dt1.binity.net> <007a01c1d426$38b2c410$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020325182247.GD14939@dan.emsphone.com> <008401c1d42d$7ad8f420$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <3C9F74C8.9165C0F1@cs.umu.se> Subject: Re: Showing Uptime Via webpage Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:11:17 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Everlund" To: "Drew Tomlinson" Cc: "Dan Nelson" ; "Walter Hop" ; ; Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Re: Showing Uptime Via webpage > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dan Nelson" > > To: "Drew Tomlinson" > > Cc: "Walter Hop" ; ; > > > > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:22 AM > > Subject: Re: Showing Uptime Via webpage > > > > > > > [in reply to Drew Tomlinson, Monday 25 March 2002 18:38] > > > > > > > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > > > > print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; > > > > > > > system ("uptime"); > > > > > > > exit; > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried this just out of curiosity but ran into problems. I > > don't > > > > get > > > > > > any errors but I just get a blank web page. > > > > > > > > > > What happens if you run "/usr/bin/uptime" instead of "uptime"? > > > > > > > > Thanks for your suggestion. However, "/usr/bin/uptime" makes no > > > > difference. The page is still blank. > > > > > > Can you print any data at all? Note that you are generating an > > > incorrect HTML header; the spec says you must use CRLFs, and some > > > proxies/browsers may refuse to parse the page. > > > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "..print any data...". My web > > server shows my static pages just fine. I have a test script that I > > picked up somewhere along the way to test that cgi is working and that > > prints data on a web page. And if I run the script from the command > > line, I get this output: > > > > blacklamb# ./uptime > > Content-type: text/plain > > > > 9:56AM up 1 day, 44 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > > > I'm sorry if I'm being real dense here but I have no experience with > > perl and very, very little in designing web pages without the help of > > (gasp) FrontPage but I'm trying to learn. > > > > So I assume that the \n is either a CR or and LF and I need \something > > else to conform to the spec? I was just using and example that was > > posted previously. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Drew > > What happens if you change the header from printing Content-type: text/plain > to Content-type: text/html: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > system("uptime"); > > Does this work? The font changes but the uptime is still not displayed. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message