Christopher M Burger wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I have written a perl program that will take a tar file and untar it then
> move file from the untarred direcories to it's directory on the webserver.
> However, when I run the program thru a webpage it does not untar the file.
> If I run the program localy it works fine. I have even run the program
> localy as www the user the webserver uses and it works fine, but when turn
> around and run the program thru my web browser it does not work.
>
> If anyone has any reasons why this would happen I would appreciate it.
>
> I'm running in strict mode, and am using the following system command to
> untar.
>
> eval { system("/usr/local/bin/gtar -C /$temp_directory -xzf
> /$temp_directory/$short_name") == 0 or die "sorry! Could not extract file
> $temp_directory/$short_name" };
>
> where $temp_directory is the full path to the tar file, and $short_name is
> the name of the tar file.
>
> Thanks
>
> Christopher Burger
Howcome you're not using Archive::Tar ? :)
check CPAN for details.
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