-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Darcy Brodie wrote: > Dean Mah wrote: >> >> On 2009-12-28, at 10:06 PM, Darcy Brodie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> From the script for the password program, when I run it from the >>> browser, I get >>> (2)No such file or directory: exec of >>> '/var/www/cgi-bin/batchsetup.cgi' failed >>> Premature end of script headers: batchsetup.cgi >> >> It sounds like something is in the wrong place. Try running perl -c >> batchsetup.cgi from the command line. Also make sure that the path to >> perl in batchsetup.cgi is correct. The path to perl should be the very >> first line, beware of blank lines and any space preceding #. Check >> spelling of script name and pathname. Make sure Apache is executing >> .pl and .cgi scripts. Convert the script to Unix if it was created or >> transferred from a DOS box. > > Dean > > perl -c batchsetup.cgi from the command line results in "syntax ok" > The perl path in batchsetup is #!/usr/bin/perl , which is the same as my > test scripts, and it is the very first line. > > As far as this file being created or copied from a dos machine, good > question. I received it as a zip file, and I unzipped it directly into > the target directory > Use the "file" command on the script in question. It should look like this: ASCII English text
If you see: ASCII English text, with CRLF line terminators Then you need to convert file. dos2unix does this job as well, though a number of text editors also have this capability (metapad and notepad++ are two Windows editors that can do this). > > Now get this. I have tried on several occasions (generally because I > thought I may have messed up the program trying to get it to run) I have > re-downloaded the program, and unzipped it in the destination > directory. This has never resulted in any progress. However. This > morning, I did it again (re-download and unzip), ran the program and it > worked. I have no idea what changed this time, but it is now working. > > Thanks to everyone who assisted with suggestions. I hope to be at the > meeting next week. > Glad it is working. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAks6TuEACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNmtgCeLt7cVBmVL+hN/FQ6MX3kkCja mYkAnibfpZhkKFS+KfJUGEZtCkcKmssP =d0dN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
