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- From: lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
- Subject: Re: execing shell scripts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.064939.9891@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- References: <6749@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.144653.4835@engr.LaTech.edu> <1992Nov16.181914.29310@trentu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:49:39 GMT
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- In <1992Nov16.181914.29310@trentu.ca> ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown) writes:
-
- >I can see how to set up the link file to run a script from gopher. What
- >I gather is that in the gopher data directory there must exist
- >directories which contain the script/programs desired. If this is so
- >and I want to run a csh script called `testme' and chroot is used (the
- >default) then testme and csh must reside in the gopher tree. If the
- >gopher data directory is /usr/local/gopherdata and the script starts
- >#!/bin/csh then I take it the gopher tree must appear like so;
-
- >/usr/local/gopherdata
- > |
- > bin
-
- >and in /usr/local/gopherdata/bin we must have csh and the script testme.
-
- >If this is so, how do I stop bin from being seen by clients as a
- >directory entry in the top level? After all, /usr/local/gopherdata
- >contains other entries I wish to display but I don't wnat to display the
- >bin dir.
-
- bin is one of those magic directories that automatically get ignored
- by the unix server. Try it, you'll like it.
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