zaphoyd

Hi there, I am trying to use the exec command in php to run a perl script that generates random content. The script is 'Nonsense' (http://nonsense.sourceforge.net) It works fine on my local server, where all i need to do is the following:

This should execute the perl script 'nonsense' in the folder 'nonsense' with the argument 'Person'.

This simply returns an empty string on the surpass server. I have tested nonsense itself by running it as cgi directly via the url, ie (http://zaphoyd.com/cgi-bin/nonsense/nonsense) and that works fine. I can exec other stuff like ls -l or pwd or other basic commands. Any ideas? Would Linux handle the exec command differently than the Mac OS X/FreeBSD server I use here?

Thanks a bunch
-Peter

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VTJustinB

The system might not be recognizing the file as a perl file correctly. Is there a #!/usr/bin/perl at the beginning of your script? If not I'd add it and that might solve your problem.

If that doesn't work, try calling the perl interpreter directly through an exec. Like:

$c = exec('/usr/bin/perl /home/yourname/public_html/nonsense/nonsense Person');

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