Are you running this under the ISAPI perl filter [PerlIS.dll] or do you
have IIS configured to run the perl interpreter [perl.exe] when this
script is requested? If you're using ISAPI perl filter -- system() and
backticks are *NOT* supported.
Levy, Kevin @ TW wrote:
> I'm trying to port over some cgi scripts to an Windows 2003/IIS 6.0
> server that were running under Solaris 8/Apache 1.3.27 and I'm having
> problems with some of the scripts (specifically with file creation).
> The scripts that seem to fail are using "system" commands such as in
> the script below. Does anyone know why this would fail? I don't
> receive any errors when the script is run, however the output file is
> never created. The same scripts run fine when they are run from a
> Windows command prompt.
>
> #! perl -w
>
> print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
> print "<HTML>\n";
> print "<HEAD>\n";
> print "<TITLE>Test Script</TITLE>\n";
> print "</HEAD>\n";
> print "<BODY>\n";
>
> $data_file = "../../tmp/obs_data.txt";
> $temp_file = "../../tmp/obs_data3";
> system `sort -t~ $data_file > $temp_file`;
> print "<H5>Script Completed!</H5>\n";
> print "</BODY>\n";
> print "</HTML>\n";
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>
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