On 9/26/01 12:05 PM, "Mr. CRJ. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having diffuculties running a unix command with variables obtained
> from a submitted via a web cgi script.
> the command is /gspq $var1 $var2
> $var1 and $var2 are obtained from a web and can be displayed but I
> cannot send these vaiable to a unix program resident on my server.
> using the command $result = `/gspq $var1 $var2`;
> I noticed that If I assign the values just before running the command
> withthe following :
> $var1 = "testvalue1";
> $var2 = "testvalue2";
> this works but I can not use values that I obtained from the web. I
> fget th folowing error:
> Premature end of script header
>
Change you script thus:
#!perl -w # or whatever line you use for your server.
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use CGI qw(:all);
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
# Then the rest of your CGI...
That *should* display the error in your browser...
PS - What you are wanting/trying to do is *extremely* dangerous to the
system you are running such a script on...
HTH;
-Sx-
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