Forking problem

[Chris Liechti]

chouster at uclink4.berkeley.edu (Chris) wrote in
news:79b54d28.0205311242.107dc392 at posting.google.com: 
> ... When I do it
> manually the temp file appears, but when I do it from the program, no
> temp file appears yet there are no complaints that anything has gone
> wrong. I'm CONFUSED!! So please help me a) determine why it seemingly
> doesnt execute my program and b) given that (a) is fixed, why no
> printing occurs to my webpage even though I program my CGI script such
> that it prints the processes output stream to my webpage. Thanks!

are you sure that your external program is found? e.g. maybe the PATH 
environment is not set and you programm is not found.
try an absolute path and insert an echo e.g. "/usr/local/bin/mycmd&&echo OK 
>/var/log/mylog" (make sure that you create the logfile before running and 
change the permissions so that the webserver can write to it. "&&" ensures 
that OK is only written when the mycmd exited successfully)

the webserver runs as different user (e.g. www-data) does this user has the 
needed rights/permissions to load the file, create temps etc?

chris

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