Re: flexfax: sendpage and apache on Linux

[Mike Porter <mike@UDel.Edu>]

I wrote a sendpage cgi program a while ago.  You are welcome to it
if interested.  It is a Perl 5.0 (maybe 4.0?) program.

Mike

On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Tony Schliesser wrote:

> I am working on a simple sendpage/web gateway.  From the command line, a
> simple C program such as:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> void main() {
> 
>    execl("/usr/local/bin/sendpage","sendpage.web", "-q",
> "-ptony","hello...testing",NULL);
> }
> 
> Works....the page is sent. 
> 
> However, if I put the execl line into a C program and run as a cgi on a web
> server, it bombs with a server error.  
> 
> I can only assume that perhaps the output of sendpage (lots of texts) is
> the problem since the return value exec* is expecting is an int.  I don't
> believe that I am the first to invent this wheel -- is there a way around
> this?  I have tried to redirect the output and error channels to /dev/null
> with no luck.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Tony Schliesser
>