The problem is the erlang module doesn't seem to be working when called from the cgi script. For testing, I put prints to stdout as well as file at the start itself. But both are not happening. I can't understand the reason for such a behaviour. Thanks Jayakrishnan On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:49:16 +0100 > Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:52:19 +0530 >> "Jayakrishnan M" <jay.krishnanm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am using a shell script as a cgi script. I am trying to call an >> > erlang beam file from the shell script for some processing. >> > The problem is that the erlang code is not getting executed. >> > The lines in the shell script which are above and below the call to >> > erlang binary are working. >> >> Are you sure it's not running but just failing to send the >> output you expect? >> >> What happens if you run within your script >> erlang-prog | while read output >> do >> echo "$output" >> done > > Come to think of it, that still generates output in a subshell. > A better test may be to save your program's output to a tempfile > and then cat that back to the client. > > -- > Nick Kew > > Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book > http://www.apachetutor.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx