The following reply was made to PR mod_cgi/1011; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jay mortensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mod_cgi/1011: minimal csh CGI won't run, while perl and sh will Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:01:14 -0700 (PDT) On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, jay mortensen wrote: > #!/bin/csh > echo "Content-type: text/html" > echo "" > echo "<HTML>" > echo "test" > echo "</html>\n" > >How-To-Repeat: > http://www.syracuse.ny.us:8080/~jay/test.cgi if you insist on seeing it > crash :) > > i can produce the same error message on the command line if i unset the HOME > environment variable lihe this: csh absolutely sucks as a scripting language. You shouldn't use it. I think you have discovered your own problem though: > web2> unsetenv HOME > web2> test.cgi > No $home variable set. > Signal 7 Your script is running your .cshrc or some crud like that. Hardly a friendly thing to be doing. If you're dead set on using csh then you should change the first line to: #!/bin/csh -f Dean
