perl in cgi with db3 files

druagord posted this at 19:25 — 27th February 2004.

Joined: May 2003

ok i got this script in perl that read db3 files it's all very old. i add to rewrite the way that db are open because a function was not available anymore. it now works in command line

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>result</title></head><body>";
(my $db=tie( %DBMFILE,'BerkeleyDB::Hash',-Filename =>$clientdbasefile))|| (print "could not open database");
print "filename = $clientdbasefile";
foreach $key (sort keys %DBMFILE) {
                print "$key = $DBMFILE{$key}";
}
print "</body></html>";
exit;

but in cgi i get could not open database permision are set for the www user on the database.

IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about

eBlush_Hector posted this at 17:36 — 4th March 2004.

He has: 51 posts

Joined: Jan 2004

possibly a permissions issue? Does the www user have permission to read and write to the DB?

When you run it on the command line, it's running as the user currently logged in to the command line. When you run it through CGI, its running as the www user.

Look into 'chown' and 'chgrp'

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