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# 8  
Old 06-01-2011
Yes I did try running the full path too. That also doesn't work. Wold the cause be the user which is running the script when it is run using cgi?
# 9  
Old 06-01-2011
It might be.

It'd be nice to get proper error messages, but cgi redirects all that by default... You can get them back in a CGI script like

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# Redirects stderr from /dev/null into stdout, so they'll show up in browser
# Comment this when you don't need it anymore!
exec 2>&1

echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
echo "'permission denied' should only be shown when exec 2>&1 is done"
touch /

exit 0

# 10  
Old 06-02-2011
MySQL
Hi,
I found the solution. As per your suggestion, I got the error message and it said, an environment variable was not set. I set the environment variable in my script and now, the swadm command is working fine. Thanks a lot for the help.
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