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From: Julian Peterson <weaver@earthcorp.com>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>,
	"Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Subject: Re: Showing Uptime Via webpage
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:36:46 -0600
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:47 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> ----- 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 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.
> > > >

> 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.
>

nope, that script is fine (I just checked it even).

Other things to check:
1/ That the script is executable
2/ The error log from the web server
3/ The cgi settings of the web server (do you have other cgi stuff working 
already?)


Julian.


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