Re: executing shells by gopherd

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1 total messages Started by rbd900@numbat.an Mon, 10 May 1993 09:37

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Author: rbd900@numbat.an
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 09:37

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Hans,

You've done everything right except that gopher has this poorly documented
"feature" that it will only treat something as an executable if there is no
space between the exclamation mark and the slash on the top line of the
script. (see below...)

Rob.

>In the manual page of gopherd is stated that you can execute shell
>scripts by the gopherd server:
>
>> Name=Executed command name
>> Type={a type}
>> Path=exec:"args":/scriptname
>> Host=+
>> Port=+
>
>Can somebody explain how this works? I have tried the following.
>I made script file ".script"
>> #! /bin/sh
     ^  <---------- Lose the space on the above line and it will work.
>> if [ $# = 0 ]
>> then
>>    exit 1
>> fi
>>
>> man $1
>> exit 0
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Robert Davy                           Robert.Davy@anu.edu.au
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