Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:24:44 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com>, <smorton@acm.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Showing Uptime Via webpage Message-ID: <011201c1d432$b8330810$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203232239500.14624-100000@shell.core.com> <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> <20020325185056.GE14939@dan.emsphone.com> <00c001c1d430$6596b9a0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020325191249.GF14939@dan.emsphone.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com>; <smorton@acm.org>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: Re: Showing Uptime Via webpage > In the last episode (Mar 25), Drew Tomlinson said: > > The "Hello World" works. You can see it for yourself at > > http://mykitchentable.net/cgi-bin/hello if you wish. > > > > I assumed from your example that to end with the proper CRLF, I > > needed to add an '\r'. Tried that but still no output. I also tried > > combining the system("uptime") with the hello world script but still > > only got the "Hello World" output. So maybe "system" does not work > > in cgi scripts? Or do you suspect I have something configured wrong? > > CRLF's are only required for the headers themselves (including the > blank line separating header and data). The data can be just > \n-delimited. > > system() should work fine, but you might want to check its returnvalue > and also check your webserver's error log (usually stderr is piped to a > log, not to the browser). I looked in httpd-error as well but no errors logged. Oh well, it's not that important to me at this time. I was just reading the list and thought I'd give it a try. If nothing else, I still learned a little about how web pages are done with perl. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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