Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Has anyone experimented with using a set of shell scripts as CGI under the
stock Apache delivered with
OpenBSD?
I did.
I wanted to learn more involved shell programing.
and perhaps a little about some of the old unix languages.
so I built this mini wikipedia ish thing
out of ksh, sed awk rcs and m4.
(collaborative revision controlled cms)
It is a complete mess, I don't think I would be able to sleep at
night if it were out in the wild.
but it actually works quite well, humming along on the old p133 I keep
it on.
Regarding the collective horror with using shell scripts as cgi. why?
Now mine is not safe but mainly I think thats because of the m4 thrown
in there. If you watch your inputs it should be fine.
And ksh is a static executable, I would think it would run fine in a
chroot. I would hate, however, to do a lot of string processing using
only ksh. main reason for m4 being in there was template processing.
If there is any scientific curiosity just ask and I can send a copy.
But it ru
