Re: Re-opening an old thread: NetWare-Enterprise-Web-Server/5.1 --As sistence requested.

From: Fred Mobach (fred@mobach.nl)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 12:24:58 EST


"Dawes, Rogan (ZA - Johannesburg)" wrote:
>
> I remember finding this on a netware server that I was auditing.
> Essentially, it is a path mapping that executes the rest of the line as a
> perl filename.
>
> E.g. /perl/mycgi.pl actually executes "perl -- ${root}/mycgi.pl".
> And /perl/dir/mycgi.pl executes "perl -- ${root}/dir/mycgi.pl"
>
> I'm guessing about the "--", but that is what I'd do. It would also explain
> why the rest of your options "-h", etc failed.

"--" indicates the end of the options for the program perl, after the
"--" comes [ programfile ] [ argument ]...

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