As Niko said, this is just plainly wrong. The fact that you can even do an ls there should tell you that smokeping.cgi is a directory (which happens to be empty), not a file.
You can't execute a directory. You need the smokeping.cgi file that comes with the SmokePing distribution. redhat unix wrote: > this is what i am running ..Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l > should i not be able to atleast read that file... becaue as it is i am > not able to, this is the content of the file... > > ls -al > total 8 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root smokeping 4096 2009-02-25 04:01 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-25 04:01 .. > > > > >> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:23:22 +0200 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] (no subject) >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:21:27PM +0000, redhat unix wrote: >> >> > leaving that off the apache2 file or off the > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi/ >> > .. ??? this is puzzling i am not even able to read the smoking.cgi > ... file... >> >> > ls -al >> > total 24 >> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-02-25 04:01 . >> > drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 12288 2009-02-12 14:19 .. >> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-02-12 14:31 cropper >> > drwxrwxr-x 2 root smokeping 4096 2009-02-25 04:01 smokeping.cgi >> >> Which package version is this? Is this really a listing of > /usr/lib/cgi-bin ? >> >> The Debian package that the Ubuntu one is based on contains a regular >> file /usr/lib/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi , and the 'cropper' directory is >> in /var/www. The above is just weird and plainly wrong. >> -- >> Niko Tyni [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > It’s the same Hotmail®. If by “same” you mean up to 70% faster. Get your > account now. > <http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Same_022009> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users -- Peter Kristolaitis DBA / Code Monkey / General Geek OpenPGP/GPG Key available from pgp.mit.edu Key Fingerprint: 695D 7616 9903 6002 5756 D234 6E96 34B2 F974 14FE _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
