Re: Different results Command Line/CGI

[Ramprasad A Padmanabhan]

Owen wrote:
I have this script stolen and modified from somewhere 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Find;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $u=shift;
my $sizes = 0;
# replace this with your absolute path
my $path = "/home/$u/";
find (sub {$sizes += -s ;}, $path);
print  "$sizes\n";
I am logged onto my machine as user owen and am root.
That is percisely why.



 From the command line I execute
perl  /var/www/cgi-bin/ff1.cgi owen     with the result

--------------------------
Content-type: text/html
(warnings snipped)

504137000
---------------------------
with rcook as the user in /home the result is 988865

Now when I do 'links http://localhost/cgi-bin/ff1.cgi?owen'

the result is 350200607 (vs 504137000 ???) and 
for user rcook the result is 0 (vs 988865)

du gives me yet another set of answers as does other File::Find type programs I have found, but that is not the problem at the moment.

Why do I get  0 for rcook when I run it through the browser?
I suspect the difference is something to do with permissions of the cgi script when 
run as a cgi script but do not know.


Any advice/clues would be most welcome

TIA



Your web server may not be running as user root and therefore it may not 
have permissions to go to all directories.
Hence you would get a zero

Ram

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