Really Confused, Need Help soon!

[Web Wench]

I have a few shell (.ksh) scripts on my unix server that I need to be able to start via a web page. And I am hoping that someone here will be able to show me an example of a
script that will do this?

I am ok with html and the shell script, but when it comes to
the cgi/perl, I am totally lost!!

Thanks in advance!!

[jeffmott]

You should be able to make the shell script itself executable, but if for some reason you can't because of a server configuration or whatever and are going to execute it via a Perl script then you'll probably want to use system (http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/system.html).

[Web Wench]

Thanks for getting me pointed ( I think) in the right direction...
As I understand it - System() waits for a return from the program. The program (shell script) I need t kick off simply passes an application command to the app from the command line. So there is no return.

SO instead, I tried the following - works great on the command line still clueless on how to make a hyperlink/button start it though?

#!/user/bin/perl

$updnow = ("/usr/scripts/jans/updnow.ksh")

exec $updnow;

[jeffmott]

still clueless on how to make a hyperlink/button start it thoughJust have the link reference the Perl script.