From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 25 19:59:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ideal.net.au (ion.ideal.net.au [203.20.241.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58D537B417 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:59:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from helium.ideal.net.au (helium.staff.ideal.net.au [202.3.35.2]) by mail.ideal.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA65837 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:59:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from chris@ideal.net.au) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011126145236.03933008@mail.ideal.net.au> X-Sender: chris@mail.ideal.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:59:23 +1100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Aitken Subject: Spawning an application with a shell in tow Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a bit of a problem that ive narrowed it down to a small part. I have a perl script that needs to spawn off the expect application. This works great when I execute it from command line on my FreeBSD box, but when I try and launch it from my cgi-bin from the web server (apache) expect barfs because it doesnt have a shell (expect needs a loaded shell to work properly). Is there any way to spawn off my command so that it utilises a shell, or some sort of shell equivilant so expect can run... This is how im executing the script.... $foo = `/usr/local/bin/expect /scripts/bar.exp Arg1 Arg2`; When I check the apache error logs I get this.... can't read "env(SHELL)": no such variable while executing "spawn $env(SHELL)" Any help on this would be appreciated. Cheers Chris -- Chris Aitken - Administration/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet email: chris@ideal.net.au phone: +61 2 4628 8888 fax: +61 2 4628 8890 __-----------------------------------------__ # ln -s /dev/null /bin/laden If you don't like my typing, all flames to /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message