On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 03:56 , Mat Harrison wrote:
> what does this mean in my apache error log? i get it A LOT. someone said > that it was something to do with windows/linux line ending compatibility > probs. > > <log snippet> > > [Thu Apr 25 23:48:59 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of > /web/cgi-bin/genestate/check_login.cgi failed > [Thu Apr 25 23:48:59 2002] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] Premature end of > script headers: /web/cgi-bin/genestate/check_login.cgi > > </log snippet> the alternative silly is where is the 'perl' really is installed - if it really is at /usr/bin/perl then your sheBang would be ok... this looks like the problem: [Thu Apr 25 16:03:51 2002] [error] [client <IP_ADDR>] file permissions deny server execution: /drieux/CS/cgi/dumb.cgi this was the one without the execute permissions [Thu Apr 25 16:09:47 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /drieux/CS/cgi/d2.cgi failed this is for the same script but as: ### #!/usr/bin/joeBobperl ### ### use CGI qw/:standard/; ### ### $url = "http://www.perl.com/CPAN/";; ### print "Location: $url\n\n"; ### exit; so it looks like you need to have the shebang point to where there is a perl - or put a symbolic link at /usr/bin/perl -> <wherePerlIsInstalled> disky: 101:] ls -ld /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 718844 Sep 12 2000 /usr/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 17 00:10 /usr/local/bin/perl -> /usr/bin/perl disky: 102:] or as a hard link ala vladimir: 60:] ls -li /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl 558805 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root other 1175680 Mar 19 15:31 /usr/bin/ perl 558805 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root other 1175680 Mar 19 15:31 /usr/local/bin/perl vladimir: 61:] ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
