RobertW — Fri, 05 May 2000 20:35:00 +0000

I meant the news grabber...

RobertW — Fri, 05 May 2000 20:33:00 +0000

thanks, it works now

by the way I found the newspro at cgi-resources.com
if will have problems finding it let me know I will send you a copy

Mark444 — Fri, 05 May 2000 12:19:00 +0000

Thanks RobP, now it works.

I just had to add a script to call the txt file. The shtml page calls the script and display the results. Hope this can help RobertW

#!/usr/bin/perl

$menu_file = "/usr21/home/fin/public_html/cgi-bin/quotes.txt";

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
open(FILE,"$menu_file");
while(<FILE> ) {
print $_;
}
exit;

One more thing: is it possible to avoid the links to cnet detailed pages or modify the same script to pick up data from yahoo sweden or spain?
Thanks

Rob Pengelly — Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:27:00 +0000

To include the quotex.txt with SSI you can just use

You will probably have to rename your .html to .shtml to allow SSI.

But to have the quotes.cgi updates, you can either just visit it every so often to execute it, or make a cron job to execute the file.

To do that, you will need to create a file named
"cront" in /home/you
inside it put something like

10 * * * * /home/yourname/public_html/cgi-bin/quotes.cgi

than login through telnet and type
crontab cront. Now your script should execute every 10 minutes.

Hope that helps a little. (Please correct me anyone if I am wrong on setting up the cron job)

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Mark444 — Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:09:00 +0000

I still have the same problem so I was about to giving it up.. i'll try again and let you know, Ok?!

PS: Do you have a working copy of news grabber? Can you tell me more about it? THANKS

RobertW — Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:51:00 +0000

well, the script works fine, when I checked the quotes.txt it has all the info required, the problem is with bringing that info to my page, can anyone help?
my webhost supports ssi

RobertW — Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:37:00 +0000

I know I am bringing this topic from death, but I really like this script but have no luck in instaling it,
here is whta i have done,
named it quotes.cgi and placed it in cgi directiory
chmod 755
then created quotes.txt in cgi directory and chmoded it 777
when I call the script on my page http://hostciti.com/quotes.shtml
nothing happens
when I call the script directly it gives me a server error,
any ideas?

Rob Pengelly — Wed, 09 Feb 2000 20:08:00 +0000

Does your host allow SSI?

that seems to work fine.

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kumanan — Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:29:00 +0000

hi,

im trying your script, but i get allways error message...

when i start the quotes.cgi ...
it comes with this error
500 internel Server error

by calling quotes.txt from q.shtml
it comes with this error
[an error occurred while processing this directive]

but in the cgi-bin directory it has created the quotes.txt with the quotes...

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Orpheus — Thu, 20 Jan 2000 03:29:00 +0000

LWP comes with Perl 5 but they may have it disabled for "security" reasons. If they do then you may try using sockets to retrieve the file to be parsed by the script.