Re: Problems with a CGI script

[John Carnahan]

Benedikt,

> 
> I tried your idea and still couldn't get it to work. Then after fiddling 
> around
> for a few more hours I hit upon calling the Swarm program with a line like 
> this
> in the Perl program:
> 
> system "/bin/bash -c '(export HOME=$home\;$run/$program -b)'\;";
> 
> Here $home is the home directory of the user nobody, $run is the directory
> where the Swarm executable is stored and $program is the name of the program.
> This works, because I spawn a new bash shell and export the HOME env variable
> within the subshell.
> 

Perhaps a better way to do things is with Apache 'SetEnv' directives. In
this way you can send along any env vars of your choosing along to CGI
scripts. You can place these directives in one of the conf files or in a
htaccess file.


John 


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