Re: [webmin-devel] &backquote_logged

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Larry Gilson <Li...@IS...> wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> I hope I am posting this question to the correct list!  I have been trying
> to work on a couple of problems I am having with the squidguard (third
> party) module.  I have resolved all but one problem.  Creating the blacklist
> db files.  Below is the subroutine from squidguard-lib.pl which is called
> from enable_blacklist.cgi to create a new db file from the blacklist. 
> For
> some reason I just can't create the db file if executed from the enable
> CGI
> script via miniserv.  However, if I simulate the subroutine via a Perl
> script from the command line, it works.  You will be able to see that I
> have
> echoed the command to a text file just to make sure variables are being
> passed correctly, which they are.
> 
> #----------------------------
> # squidguard-lib.pl
> # rebuild_db($file)
> # Rebuild the dbfile $file with squidguard -C
> sub rebuild_db {
>   my $bin = &get_binary_path();
>   &terror('lib_nobin') if (! -x $bin);
> 
>   if (-e $_[0]) {
>     `echo "$bin -C $_[0]" > /var/lib/squidguard/blacklists/ads/xxx.txt`;
>     &backquote_logged("$bin -C $_[0] 2>&1 </dev/null");
>     &webmin_log('rebuild', 'dbfile', $_[0]);
>     &sgchown($_[0]);
>     &sgchown("$_[0].db");
>   }
> 
>   if (! -e $_[0]) {
>     `echo "$bin -C $_[0]" > /var/lib/squidguard/blacklists/ads/yyy.txt`;
>   }
> 
>   &reload_squid();
> }
> #----------------------------
> 
> I am just getting burnt-out on this one.  Anyone have any ideas why I can
> make this work via the Perl script/command line but not via CGI/miniserv?

This may be a path problem - make sure that whatever is in $bin is a full
path like '/usr/local/bin/foo' instead of just 'foo', which may not be in
webmin's program search path.

 - Jamie