Jessee Parker wrote: > Hi all, I've run into a bit of a problem. I need to see if a program is > currently running. If it is, I want to display this on a web page that > tells the status of the program (either on or off). The script I created > which is probably longer than it needs to be, basically issues a system(ps > -A) call and writes it out to a file which in turns gets parsed through. > This works fine from the command line. However, when I try to execute this > same script by accessing the web page, it won't write the file to the > directory which causes it to in turn display incorrect results. I am not > sure what permissions a cgi-script (or the directory it resides in) should > have so I didn't want to just try to change permissions to allow it to > write. I may be approaching this the wrong way entirely so any help would > be greatly appreciated! > > Jessee
check out the Proc::ProcessTable module in CPAN for a replacement of your system(ps -A) thingy. it might prove to be easier to use and maintain and you don't need to create a tmp file for storing the output of ps -A. if you really need to use a tmp file, you can try using the File::Temp module which can create tmp file for you and clean it up for you after your process is finish with it: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use File::Temp qw/tempfile tempdir/; my ($tmp_handle,$tmp_file) = tempfile(DIR => tempdir(CLEANUP => 1)); #-- do whatever you need to to with $tmp_handle($tmp_file) __END__ when your process is finished, the tmp file is cleaned up for you automatically. this way, you don't have to worry about the permission thingy. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
