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Hello, I'm currently using sendmail as my default MTA, and for encoding attachments I use Mutt. I'm trying to create a perl script that will allow users to send attachments with their email. ...
Hi,                I have cgi/perl script while invoking it through html it is downloading, it not executing the cgi/perl script?I am doing a mini search engine? The html file name is search...
Hi, I need to write a perl script to display a form with three drop down list boxes. The 1st list will need to display a list of customer names from a simple database, once the user has ...
I have a cgi script that takes a while to process some information, so I'd like to write a 'Please wait' message to the browser while the script processes. I have a little .gif that spins to s...
Hi,    This should be simple but I have been struggling w/ it for over a year.  Simply stated I am just trying to get the file upload to work.  My browsers are Foxfire v3.0.1 (and earlier) an...
Hi, I am a Perl developer having 3 years of experience in Perl programming. After a long time I going to attend interview on CGI-Perl. I know the Perl questions mostly asked for Interviews...
Hi all, First post! Running a great web app designed by a local called POW-PAK (free software for teachers/school systems). http://www.pow-pak.com/powpak.html I was running it on windows...
Hi, I have got a file download script from the internet which is attached below. The script gives a bad file descriptor error message on line 11 when trying to assign the file parameter to ...
I have a script (a.pl) that calls another (b.pl - it shows nothing graphically) when a button is selected. Now I need to take the output from b.pl to start another script (c.pl) that uses the ...
hi, I have a cgi form. The form is thru my hosting which uses, Matt Wrights form mail. I can get the form to work and submit the info, the only issue is that when the form is submitted,...
Hi everyone, I'm playing around with Linux CGI using many languages.  I got it to work with Perl, C, and C++.  I now want it to work with BASH.  I have a two files: cgi-bin/bash/index.bs...
I am writing a cache in perl but having issues with memory management. I need to make sure that when my script starts up, it gets assigned a chunk lets say 500 megs that no one else can touch ...
I can only use perl without any installed modules. I need to be able to SU or SUDO from a perl script. something like: $user = "user"; $pass = "pass"; `su $user\r`; # enter pas...
Experts, I am trying to get the number of days between two dates, ie; 2007-01-30 2007-03-30 I will then use this to carry out a while loop.
Can someone tell me if this can be done and how as I have almost got it right, erm no I have not... ozo gave me this one liner that works a treat $r1t = (undef, $onename, $twoname,  $three...
I'm attempting to get an existing application working on a new server.  When running CGI scripts that connect to the Oracle database I get the following error: install_driver(Oracle) failed...
Hi all, I am trying to create a proxy script through CGI/Perl that looks at the client IP address, breaks the IP address into four variables and then uses those variables to pass the IE ses...
I have Apache 2.x, PHP 5.x installed in Linux server. The application has PHP files in the document root and 2 .cgi files (upload.cgi and progress.cgi) in the apache's cgi-bin directory. The u...
Hello Experts, I am trying to show list of available colors for the product. I am saving comma separated names in the database field and all I wanted is to split by comma and make the color...
Hi!   I have a C script using ping to check if an ip address is alive... i'm using this code:   int result;   result = system("ping -c 2 ipaddresshere"); but i can't get the correct value o...
Hi I've just unistalled outlook 2002, but had not backed up my emails (sent and receive mails). I havent installed any other version yet, but is there a way of retrieving my files? Does outloo...
I am writing a perl script in which I use system function to execute wzzip, wzunzip and nmake commands in windows. If I do not specify redirection it works fine. But if I say like system("w...
SSL will not work in Browsers for our given domain , Browser Returns "Unable to connect" At the telnet command line test                    openssl s_client -connect domname.net:443 -state...
Ok guys, not sure if this should be posted here or another place.  But I have a Webserver set up in my basement, hosting a few of my customers web-sites.  Now I program in perl, and am using a...
Hello, I'm making a few CGI pages. I want to keep some constants - database field names, some labels to keep wording consistent, etc. - in a file which all the scripts can read from. I'v...