doublehelix — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:37:01 +0000

Hey, I want to thank you guys who offered help. We actually ended up implementing it in a slightly different way. We're using Util_File to generate the kornshell on the fly. Then we invoke that script by calling it with a Java stored procedure with a PL/SQL wrapper. It gives us the advantage of using both unix and oracle's security mechanisms.

Eh, you've heard of extreme programming, we're perfecting the next great idea -- Rube Goldberg programming.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:34:03 +0000

Well, perhaps try faking the ENV. I had dificulty calling lynx from apache on some systems. I ended up doing this:
`LYNX_TEMP_SPACE=/tmp; export LYNX_TEMP_SPACE; lynx -dump http://example.com 1>/dev/null 2>&1`'What you'd need to do, is echo $DISPLAY from inside X-Windows to find out what a correct value is.

doublehelix — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:23:43 +0000

mairving,

Ya know... I never did check to see if the directory it is being output to is 777. It is probably 755. I'll check that. I'll also check into which shell the webserver user defaults to. Thanks.

doublehelix — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:20:16 +0000

We're in the x-windows environment when we run it from the command line. The ksh script starts by reading the ENV file and that is where the script called by a URL appears to keel over. My first guess was that the script, when called from a URL, wasn't running the ksh script inside the Korn Shell and that's where it got lost. That's why I tried the intermediate Perl script, because I thought that I would be able to invoke the shell when I called it via system.

when I run it I'm back to the same error: DISPLAY=mantaray:0.0: is not an identifier

Am I correct in thinking that DISPLAY is part of xlib?

mairving — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:06:18 +0000

It is either one of two things or both:

Permissions - try logging into the system as the same user that is being used by the webserver and running the script. You might also try outputting the file to a chmoded 777 directory (just for test purposes). This will eliminate permissions as being the problem.
Make Korn the default shell for the same user as above.

Mark Hensler — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:28:04 +0000

How do you run this successfully? Are you in an X-Windows environment? Or can you run it fine from an SSH connection?