topic Re: Unix shell script CGI in Operating System - Linux

Unix shell script CGI

Rob Daniels — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:30:46 GMT

Hi all,
when I login as root on our hp9000, and execute the script test to print a file, it works fine
#!/bin/sh
export PRINTER=lj402
if [ -s outsam.9001 ] ; then
lp outsam.9001
fi

When I post execute the above script by a html screen as a cgi script, it won't print anything.

Can anyone help me out please.

Thank you in advance.

Re: Unix shell script CGI

Torsten. — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:34:38 GMT

Check the error logfile.
I would use the full pathname, /usr/bin/lp

Re: Unix shell script CGI

Rob Daniels — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:43:15 GMT

It works. Thank you!!

That was easy, I should have know that.

Thank you again.
Rob

Re: Unix shell script CGI

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:50:06 GMT

Shalom,

You need a statement at the top to set the print type for html.

In perl it looks like this:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

echo -e "Content-type: text/html\n\n"

Should work or two line feeds after the html.

SEP