[Perl-unix-users] how can user change text in cgi ?

2004-08-25 Thread Michael Meltzer
A user should change or create his vacation message text via perl cgi. Does someone know about such a script ? How can the user edit/change text ? Where should I search/start ? We use apache, sendmail, procmail. Any advice appreciated Michael -- +-- Michael Meltzer -+---

Re: [Perl-unix-users] how can user change text in cgi ?

2004-08-25 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Michael Meltzer wrote: > A user should change or create his vacation message text via perl cgi. > Does someone know about such a script ? > How can the user edit/change text ? > Where should I search/start ? > > We use apache, sendmail, procmail. If you have procmail set up to do your vacation m

Re: [Perl-unix-users] how can user change text in cgi ?

2004-08-25 Thread Anthony Ettinger
Apache runs as an underprivileged user though. I'm assuming you want one cgi script where they enter their username and a vacation msg in a form from a web page. You would have to open up their ~/.forward files to be world writable (which would mean they could potentially change each others vacati

[Perl-unix-users] Newbee Question

2004-08-25 Thread Avadhani, Subramanya
Hi List, I am a newbee in Perl. I am in the process of writing a small application for our webpage. I have the HTML page ready with me which has a text(edit) field and some checkboxes. I want these parameters from the webpage to come into my Perl-cgi application so that I can process the re

Re: [Perl-unix-users] how can user change text in cgi ?

2004-08-25 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Anthony Ettinger wrote: > Apache runs as an underprivileged user though. I'm > assuming you want one cgi script where they enter > their username and a vacation msg in a form from a web > page. > > You would have to open up their ~/.forward files to be > world writable (which would mean they coul

Re: [Perl-unix-users] Newbee Question

2004-08-25 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Avadhani, Subramanya wrote: > Hi List, > I am a newbee in Perl. I am in the process of writing a small > application for our webpage. I have the HTML page ready with me which > has a text(edit) field and some checkboxes. I want these parameters from > the webpage to come into my Perl-cgi app