Using system in IIS5.0 on 2000 Server

luckydexte · Jun 12, 2002

Hello All,

I am running into a problem using a Windows 2000 server running IIS 5.0. The following code works when it is run from a Perl program run at the command line but not run over the Internet.

## Start of code

$to = "brandon\@email.com";
$from = "server\@email.com";
$exe = "e:/clemail/cscript.exe";
$source = "e:/clemail/commandlineemail.vbs";
$subject = "Subject";
$file = "e:/client_webs/test.pl";

system("(\"$exe\" \"$source\" \"$to\" \"$from\" \"\" \"$subject\" \"$file\&quot

&quot

;

## End of code

The program commandlineemail.vbs is a Microsoft program that sends an email. I have copied cscript.exe from the System32 directory so there were not permission problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Brandon
This .vbs program is a Microsoft

sleipnir214 · Jun 12, 2002

Any errors? Perfection in engineering does not happen when there is nothing more to add. Rather it happens when there is nothing more to take away.

luckydexte · Jun 12, 2002

No errors, the perl program runs but no email is ever sent.

NEVERSLEEP · Jun 12, 2002

whats the directory/drive of this script on the net ?
if im guessing right u r supose to call cscript.exe
like this ?

E:/clemail/>( "cscript.exe" "e:/clemail/commandlineemail.vbs" "brandon@email.com" "server@email.com" "Subject" "e:/client_webs/test.pl&quot

?? cause this what u do with your system call here ...

if u r not in same directory use some thing like this
system('e:');
system('cd clemail');
# your system here

again your cgi should return something to the browser
at least a
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n<html></html>";

using the -w help also has strict so your script should be
something like this

#!perl -w
use strict;
my $to = "brandon\@email.com";
my $from = "server\@email.com";
my $exe = "cscript.exe";
my $source = "commandlineemail.vbs";
my $subject = "Subject";
my $file = "e:/client_webs/test.pl";

system('E:'); # make sure your in the good drive
system('cd clemail'); # go to exe directory

system($exe . " " . $source . " " . $to . " " . $from . " " . $subject . " " . $file);
# this last system call will do :
# E:clemail>cscript.exe commandlineemail.vbs brandon@email.com server@email.com Subject e:/client_webs/test.pl
# then we return some html to the browser
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n<html></html>";
# all done then quit
exit;
# be sure to copy this to a text editor to view a meaned to
# hope this helps ---------------------------------------

someone knowledge ends where
someone else knowledge starts

luckydexte · Jun 13, 2002

Ok, I got the script to work by using what you suggested (with some minor alterations) but I am getting the following error when I try to run cscript.exe from a browser:

CScript Error: Loading your settings failed. (Access is denied. )

Also, I had to change my Path back to the original settings to get cscript.exe to run at all. This was no problem of course, I was just surprised I had to do so. Thanks again.

Brandon

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Using system in IIS5.0 on 2000 Server

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