The following reply was made to PR config/694; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mike Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: config/694 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 21:19:46 -0600 (MDT)
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Mike Machado wrote: > Ok i finally got my program to work... but i cant get the test-cgi to > work.... > The weirdest thing was happening. I use samba from my win95 box to the > linux box and if you create a file and put it through the LAN on the linux > even if you make the mode a+x it wont execute!!. it says bad command or > file name, and i know all about doing ./ with root casue . isnt in the > PATH. I even did mode 777 and if i do anything over the lan it wont > execute. I have to use like pico or vi and make the same script i norder to > get it to execute. SO all the cgi's i had wouldnt execute unless i untared > then DIRECTLY on the linux bot. I unzipped test-cgi directly and it STILL > wont execute. Why would that be??? Ah. Your problem is probably end of line characters. Windows likes an extra ^M that Unix doesn't. If you vi one of the files copied from the Windows box, you will probably find that it has a ^M at the end of each line; most versions of vi will show it, some won't. ISTR you can set Samba to automatically convert things like that, but it is ugly. Are you saying that test-cgi still doesn't work when you untar it directly on the Linux box? It seems like you found the source of your problems, so if test-cgi still won't work that is probably related; you could try running it from the command line.
