RE: [webmin-devel] &backquote_logged

[Larry G. <Li...@IS...>]

Jamie,

Thanks for the reply!

> 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


&backquote_logged("$bin -C $_[0] 2>&1 </dev/null");

Both $bin and $_[0] are absolute paths.  I can cat the file that
the above command was echoed into, copy and paste at the command
line, execute, and obtain a successful db file.  The result is:

/usr/bin/squidGuard -C /var/lib/squidguard/blacklists/ads/domains
/usr/bin/squidGuard -C /var/lib/squidguard/blacklists/ads/urls

Just for kicks, I modified the &get_binary_path() so the binary is
found rather than the symlink.  Still nothing.  Permissions seem to
be correct, execute is allowed.  I just don't get it.  It should work.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Larry





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> 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();
> }
> #----------------------------