[cobalt-developers] cgi-wrapper & file opens

["sara starre" <perl_rocks@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi everyone..

I'm trying to run a Perl cgi script on the Raq3 that keeps failing. First it 
left this message in the apcahe error log:

 [Wed May 10 17:22:10 2000] [warn] [client 24.27.206.68] handler     
"cgi-wrapper" not found for:   /home/sites/site18/web/cgibin/wipadm/pat.cgi
 [Wed May 10 17:22:11 2000] [error] [client 24.27.206.68] malformed   
header from script. Bad header=Global symbol "@patlx" require: 
/usr/cgiwrap/cgiwrap

This error didnt make much sense to me as I had the Content-Type line and 
all in there. I had no header problems from another script that I was runing 
in nthe same dir. Also the script ran fine in the O/S from the prompt.

It seemed to fail for no reason.

My sysadmin told me to add those lines that Cobalt has in their FAQ to the 
.htaccess file:

 Options +ExecCGI
 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

(there is another line with .pl but I dont use that extention).

I then re-ran the script, and sure-enough it does run now, but not when the 
script tries to open a dbm file from the script I get:

(cant tie urec to /home/sites/site18/web/db/usr
Permission denied)

even though I've been accessing the same exact file from another script in 
another directory. So I know the script has proper protections.

Is there some modification I need to make to the script? Was it proper to 
disable he cgi-wrapper? I've been running all sorts of scripts on this same 
server, accessing all sorts of db files from perl with no problems until I 
hit this one.

Thanks!
HUG,
Perlgirl
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