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Shell can be used out of the box by apache as a cgi.  Just drop a shell
script in your cgi directory.  The most common problem is the "malformed
header".  Just be sure to give it a plain text header:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"
/bin/ls

Take Care, Keith
"David Winter" <noemail@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:9r3fue$6k5$1@news.businessobjects.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure somebody already posted the solution some time ago, but I
couldn't
> find it.
> I need to launch a sheel script (.sh file) from an HTML page under unix
> (Solaris and others).
> I am NOT using any server: this only a LOCAL html page. No virtual
> directories.
>
> Right now I am using the following code, that is executed from an image
> button in an HTML <form>:
>
> <script>
> function openMyFile ()
> {
>     if (document.layers)
>     {
>         var exePath = new String('. ./test.sh');
>
> netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalExecAccess');
>         java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec(exePath);
>     }
> }
> </script>
>
>
> The test.sh file changes the current directory in order to run another sh
> that launches a java application.
>
> I have tried several shell commands, such as:
>
>     '. ./test.sh'
>     './test.sh'
>
> but no luck. Nothing happens and my sh file is not launched.
> Any ideas ? Please reply in this newsgroup.
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> David Winter
>
>

David Winter wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sure somebody already posted the solution some time ago, but I couldn't
> find it.
> I need to launch a sheel script (.sh file) from an HTML page under unix
> (Solaris and others).
> I am NOT using any server: this only a LOCAL html page. No virtual
> directories.
> 
> Right now I am using the following code, that is executed from an image
> button in an HTML <form>:
> 
> <script>
> function openMyFile ()
> {
>     if (document.layers)
>     {
>         var exePath = new String('. ./test.sh');

You can't use `.', it is a sell command.

> 
> netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalExecAccess');
>         java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec(exePath);
>     }
> }
> </script>
> 
> The test.sh file changes the current directory in order to run another sh
> that launches a java application.
> 
> I have tried several shell commands, such as:
> 
>     '. ./test.sh'
>     './test.sh'

Are you sure netscape's current directory is where you put your script?

Try this page:

<html>
<head>
<script>
function openMyFile ()
{
    if (document.layers)
    {
     	var exePath = new String('/full/path/to/test.sh');  

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalExecAccess');
        java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec(exePath);
    }
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="openMyFile()">
</body>
</html>

and script:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/X11R6/bin
./xterm

Don't forget to give execution permission.
If it works modify it for your needs.
> 
> but no luck. Nothing happens and my sh file is not launched.

Look in javascript console, you can open it by typing `javascript:' in
the location field.

> Any ideas ? Please reply in this newsgroup.

Which one? I've set follow-ups to comp.unix.questions.

HTH,
--
Alex Mitrofanov
Brainbench MVP for Unix Programming
http://www.brainbench.com

In article <9r3fue$6k5$1@news.businessobjects.com>,
David Winter <noemail@nospam.com> wrote:


>I need to launch a sheel script (.sh file) from an HTML page under unix
>(Solaris and others).
>I am NOT using any server: this only a LOCAL html page. No virtual
>directories.

...

>The test.sh file changes the current directory in order to run another sh
>that launches a java application.

The proper place to run executables is from the cgi-bin directory
or the place designated as such in your config files.  This may not
make a difference but coalesecing all your executeables in one area
makes for good security too.

-- 
Bill Vermillion -   bv @ wjv . com

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Hactar wrote:

> In article <BPcB7.1463$jr.299765@news1.rdc1.va.home.com>,
> Keith Duffin <keith@duffin.org> wrote:
> > Shell can be used out of the box by apache as a cgi.  Just drop a shell
> > script in your cgi directory.
>
> There is only a cgi directory if there is a web server.  The OP said this is
> a local page (i.e., no web server); right, OP?  You're using some kind of
> file:// URL to view this file, yes?  I don't know how to do it without a
> web server.  With a web serber, Keith's right; you just put it in /cgi-bin
> or wherever cgis are kept.  The script should output HTML.

The script need not output HTML; it can be anything (plain text, images,
etc.), so long as the header identifies the correct type.

-- 
    Chris F.A. Johnson                        http://cfaj.freeshell.org
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