Hi Paul,

I ran into this same problem today.  Check out the System2 module from
CPAN.  Only problem is it lacks a license or copyright notice.  Oh,
and it uses select() so probably only works on Unix.

-John

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:27:02AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a situation where I need to exec a command-line based perl 
> program from a CGI wrapper.  I want to do this safely, but I also 
> want to see the same output from the command line program in the
> browser that I would normally.
> 
> I'm not quite sure how I should go about doing this, and have it safe 
> as well.  I'm assuming the best option is using the list form of 
> system()?  If so, how do I get STDERR to the browser as well?
> 
> Will 'fatalsToBrowser' accomplish this?  Currently stderr seems to 
> end up in the apache error log.
> 
> Thanks for you input.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul
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