problem with system call & rsh

[nappaji]

Hi,
my web server is a linux machine.
I'm trying to execute the following statement from within a cgi script, but it seem to not work when run from a browser. But if I run the cgi script from the command line , it works.

Here it is:

system("rsh server1 \"cd \/nappaji\/spc_charts\/; sas c_greplay_new.sas;\""

This statement is within a CGI script. All it does is rsh onto the server server1 , cd onto my directory and execute a script. (sas is a statistical analysis tool).

I'm unable to figure out why it works from the CGI script works from the command line but not from the browser.

Please help
Thanks

 

[mylvaga]

dUDE, TrY tHIS,

system('rsh server1 \"cd \/nappaji\/spc_charts\/; sas c_greplay_new.sas;\"');


Hope this would help you

 

[goBoating]

maybe a permissions problem...????
Make sure that the web server daemon has sufficient permissions to read/write and play with all the files/directories on which the sas process is dependent. When you run a command via a CGI, that command runs as a different user than it does when you run from a prompt (where it runs as you).

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