On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, William Raffloer wrote:
> Peter
>
> We have another mystery on our hands, there I ported the Perl5.005_03 as we
> had gone over, I really can't understand why the CGI.pm Font and color are not
> showing up the way they used to (it was working on one system in
> perl5.004_03), very weird.
To be absolutely sure they are the same try running the script with
appropriate environment variable and/or command line arguments:
cd cgi-bin
(CGI_EB=foo && perl perlcgi.pl arg1 arg2 | tee file.log 2&>1)
on both systems. Take file.log from one system over to the other
system and rename it file.log.other system then run the command:
diff -c file.log.other file.log
and examine what the test output difference is. If there is absolutely no
difference then I would suspect a perl permission and/or ownership problem
difference between the systems.
On the one system where the script worked as you wanted it to under
5.004_03 try this:
cd cgi-bin
(CGI_EB=foo && /usr/local/bin/perl perlcgi.pl arg1 arg2 | tee file.log
2&>1)
and compare that output to the output from the other invokation (assuming
that the full path to your 5.004_03 binary is /usr/local/bin/perl ).
Using diff ought to eliminate the possibilty of extraneous control
characters or any output difference at all, hopefully better than just
trying to do it by eye (apologies if you already followed this approach).
> I tested the the perlcgi.pl on both systems (working cgi.pm system and
> nonworking cgi.pm system) and achived the same results, they worked as shell
> scripts in both places. I had to issue a ctrl-d twice and saw the same output
> on both systems (header record and the body of the HTLM icluding the tags).
>
> The only thing I can think of is instaead of moving the HFS files I should
> have rebuilt it on the system.
check the output from:
cd cgi-bin
ls -l perlcgi.pl
between the two systems: ownership? permissions?
> Unless it is a webserber issue, but that does not make sense because perl
> works as a cgi scripting tool (just not the CGI.pm stuff on the newly moved
> systems).
That is you have verified that a simple perl+CGI.pm script that does use
CGI and print_header() end_html() works identically on both systems and
you are only seeing a difference with the font and color stuff? Are you
using exactly the same browser to view both systems?
Peter Prymmer
