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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to run script through CGI? Post 302998168 by Corona688 on Friday 26th of May 2017 12:10:04 PM
Old 05-26-2017
This won't work right in CGI for a few reasons; first, CGI has no keyboard input and can't read a number from the user. Second, you usually can't - and definitely shouldn't - write to the current folder in a CGI script.

Third, you never, ever want a CGI script to be running self-generated code.

How to run it from CGI also depends on your web server. What is your CGI folder?
Last edited by Corona688; 05-26-2017 at 01:22 PM..
 

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hobbit-nkview.cgi

HOBBIT-NKVIEW.CGI(1)					      General Commands Manual					      HOBBIT-NKVIEW.CGI(1)

NAME

       hobbit-nkview.cgi - Xymon Critical Systems view CGI

SYNOPSIS

       hobbit-nkview.cgi

DESCRIPTION

       hobbit-nkview.cgi is invoked as a CGI script via the hobbit-nkview.sh CGI wrapper.

       hobbit-nkview.cgi matches the current critical statuses against the hobbit-nkview.cfg(5) file, and generates the "Critical Systems" view.

RELATION TO BBNK PAGE

       This view is a replacement for the statically generated "bbnk" page provided in versions of Xymon prior to version 4.2. Although the "bbnk"
       pages are supported throughout Xymon 4.x, it is recommended that You switch to the newer Critical Systems view provided by this CGI.

OPTIONS

       --nkacklevel=NUMBER
	      Sets the acknowledgment level for acknowledgments sent via the hobbit-ackinfo.cgi(1) page. Note that this may be overridden  by  the
	      configuration of the hobbit-ackinfo.cgi utility.

       --env=FILENAME
	      Loads the environment defined in FILENAME before executing the CGI script.

       --area=NAME
	      Load environment variables for a specific area. NB: if used, this option must appear before any --env=FILENAME option.

       --debug
	      Enables debugging output.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       BBHOME Used to locate the template files for the generated web pages.

       QUERY_STRING
	      Contains the parameters for the CGI script.

SEE ALSO

       hobbit-ackinfo.cgi(1), xymon(7)

Xymon							    Version 4.2.3:  4 Feb 2009					      HOBBIT-NKVIEW.CGI(1)
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