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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to convert my /bin/sh script with cgi and html to run it on browser!?? Post 303039378 by Corona688 on Wednesday 2nd of October 2019 02:43:50 PM
Old 10-02-2019
One important thing to keep in mind with CGI. It doesn't run as you, it runs as the web server's user. Which means a CGI script doesn't -- AND SHOULDN'T! -- have permissions to write to the current folder, whatever it happens to be. You should create a file in a known writable location, like /tmp/$$-query.txt or some such. $$ is the script's PID, which is a quick and dirty way of getting a unique file name. (Once you have stuff working, see mktemp for a fancier, safer option.) And yes, you'll need to delete the file when you're done!

What's 'echo cat' for? If you want to cat, run cat. But you don't actually need cat here, grep (and most other commands) is fully capable of reading files without cat's help.

Also, you should be putting variables inside double quotes, and not putting * inside double quotes.

Code:
# Catch error messages so you see them in the web browser
exec 2>&1
# Check log files for 
grep "$XX" /opt/SUNWappserver/nodeagents/ins1/logs/* > /tmp/$$.txt 

...

rm /tmp/$$.txt

Lastly, does your web server have read-access to /opt/SUNWappserver/nodeagents/ins1/logs/* ? It'll need it.
 

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cgi_cookie_clear

cgi_cookie_clear(3)						     cgi/cgi.h						       cgi_cookie_clear(3)

NAME

       cgi_cookie_clear  - clear browser cookie

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cgi/cgi.h>

       NEOERR *cgi_cookie_clear (CGI *cgi, const char *name, const char *domain,
				 const char *path);

ARGUMENTS

       cgi - a CGI struct
       name - the cookie name to clear
       domain - the domain to clear, NULL for none
       path - the cookie's path

DESCRIPTION

       cgi_cookie_clear  will  send back a Set-Cookie string that will attempt to stop a browser from continuing to send back a cookie.  Note that
       the cookie has to match in name, domain, and path, and the luck of the Irish has to be with you for this work all  the  time,  but  at  the
       least it will make the browser send back a cookie with no value, which the ClearSilver cookie parsing code will ignore.

RETURN VALUE

       None

SEE ALSO

       cgi_debug_init(3),  cgi_parse(3),  cgi_destroy(3),  cgi_js_escape(3),  cgi_html_escape_strfunc(3), cgi_register_strfuncs(3), cgi_output(3),
       parse_rfc2388(3), cgi_url_validate(3), open_upload(3), cgi_cs_init(3), cgi_url_escape_more(3), cgi_html_strip_strfunc(3), cgi_neo_error(3),
       cgi_redirect(3),  cgi_filehandle(3),  cgi_register_parse_cb(3),	cgi_url_escape(3),  cgi_init(3), cgi_redirect_uri(3), cgi_cookie_clear(3),
       cgi_url_unescape(3), cgi_vredirect(3), cgi_display(3),  cgi_html_ws_strip(3),  cgi_error(3),  cgi_cookie_set(3),  cgi_text_html_strfunc(3),
       cgi_cookie_authority

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