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Old 01-27-2011
Beep is not working for me. I tried 'beep -f 15000 -l 2000 --verbose', no sound is made from terminal or from my cgi-script. Added localhost to xterm but it would not add www-data which is the user the script runs under.

I think I need to change what I am doing. The program I need to control is called Motion which is started and stopped by a bash script my group member made: site for reference WebHome < Motion < Foswiki. This script needs sudo permission to control it, run and kill, as my group member has set it up. I need to start and stop this script in 2 separate cgi-scripts. One to start, and one to stop it. I hope this is not confusing.

The script I need to run opens a new xterm window.

Please let me know if I'm not being clear in my description.
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Old 01-27-2011
Is this just groping, or are you looking at the logs to see what is complaining? If your cgi runs at all, it can run anything, but whatever you run needs the environment setup it usually enjoys. If it needs a controlling terminal, that is just a bit harder. Why put in explicit path when ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc or the like should have all your usual PATH and such?
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