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Re: sendpage and apache on Linux
I wrote a sendpage cgi program a while ago. You are welcome to it
if interested. It is a Perl 5.0 (maybe 4.0?) program.
Mike
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Tony Schliesser wrote:
> I am working on a simple sendpage/web gateway. From the command line, a
> simple C program such as:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> void main() {
>
> execl("/usr/local/bin/sendpage","sendpage.web", "-q",
> "-ptony","hello...testing",NULL);
> }
>
> Works....the page is sent.
>
> However, if I put the execl line into a C program and run as a cgi on a web
> server, it bombs with a server error.
>
> I can only assume that perhaps the output of sendpage (lots of texts) is
> the problem since the return value exec* is expecting is an int. I don't
> believe that I am the first to invent this wheel -- is there a way around
> this? I have tried to redirect the output and error channels to /dev/null
> with no luck.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Tony Schliesser
>