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On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 04:16 , drieux wrote: >> [Thu Apr 25 23:48:59 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of >> /web/cgi-bin/genestate/check_login.cgi failed >> [Thu Apr 25 23:48:59 2002] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] Premature end of >> script headers: /web/cgi-bin/genestate/check_login.cgi >> >> </log snippet> wow - just used unix2dos and I can generate the similar error case on our linux box. [Thu Apr 25 16:58:46 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /drieux/CS/cgi/dumbDos.cgi failed [Thu Apr 25 16:58:46 2002] [error] [client <IPADDR>] Premature end of script headers: /drieux/CS/cgi/dumbDos.cgi this occurs because of the 'dos' two byte ending: 0000000 # ! / u s r / b i n / p e r l \r 0000020 \n \r \n u s e C G I q w / : s 0000040 t a n d a r d / ; \r \n \r \n $ u r 0000060 l = " h t t p : / / w w w . 0000100 p e r l . c o m / C P A N / " ; 0000120 \r \n p r i n t " L o c a t i o 0000140 n : $ u r l \ n \ n " ; \r \n e 0000160 x i t ; \r \n the comedy here is that the killer is that your linux machine is reading the 'shebang' there not as #!/usr/bin/perl but as #!/usr/bin/perl^M and there is no such file of that type. fix that one line and your code will work.... now of course had you put that line as #!/usr/bin/perl -w then the 'shebang' would have worked because the formating would have been od -c dumbDos.cgi 0000000 # ! / u s r / b i n / p e r l 0000020 - w \r \n \r \n that would have moved the "^M" like gunge off of #!/usr/bin/perl and perl has no problem with sucking in -w\r\n as a command line argument since in the dark it will 'chomp' that stuff anyway ..... have we mentioned 'use -w' before???? Did we ever mention 'use strict;' before!!! There are Majikal and Mystical Reasons..... ciao drieux ---Thread Previous | Thread Next