Execute an application

[steve]

I have written an perl script to execute another file, which happens to 
be a gui application - gedit.  gedit is a text editor in RedHat 9. 
That's not the real application I want to run, but it serves it's 
purpose for testing - the real application I want to execute is a kylix 
gui application I wrote.

So here's my perl script:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
exec("sudo gedit & > /dev/null 2>/dev/null");
Works great when ran from gnome-terminal with line like:  perl myscript

I need to execute this script from a web page, through a browser.
When I browse to this page in the cgi-bin directory, gedit does not show 
 up and I get an error in my Apache error log directory:

[Tue Oct 14 13:13:30 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (gedit:17268): 
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

How can I get this to work?  Thanks.

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