Subject: Re: I have an error message from some scripts...
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/01/2000 15:34:32
>> [Sun Apr 30 13:50:06 2000] [error] [client 209.5.112.133] Premature end of
>> script headers: /local/etc/httpd/htdocs/shopzone/jmw/cgi-bin/wwwinstall.cgi
>
>That a near-useless error. I hate it when I get that error in my logs.

well...it indicates that the script is borked.

>What happens if you run the CGI on the command line?
> 
>> and this is the error when i run ldd on a file:
>> 
>> canal.iaw.on.ca:/webpage/shopzone/jmw/cgi-bin# ldd wwwinstall.cgi
>> ldd: wwwinstall.cgi: not a dynamic executable
>> canal.iaw.on.ca:/webpage/shopzone/jmw/cgi-bin#
>
>Well, that tells you something.

it suggests to me that wwwinstall.cgi is a perl program, but then
again, i'm being very solicitous in my guessing.  did perl not get
re-installed?  or lost in the install?

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