Coming from Perl

[Amer Neely]

Bryan Olson wrote:
> Amer Neely wrote:
>> I don't have shell access but I can run 'which python' from a Perl 
>> script, and I will try the different shebang line you suggested.
> 
> And after trying it, Amer Neely reported:
> 
>> I tried `which python` and `whereis python` and got 0 back as a 
>> result. So it seems Python is not installed at all.
> 
> Probably right, but just to be thorough...  Since you do not
> have shell access, I'm guessing you are running these within
> a Perl cgi script, and getting the results via a browser. Is
> that right?

Yes.
> 
> Can you backtick other commands? What do you get if you run
> `which perl` the same way? How about `whoami`, `whereis sh`,
> and `which nosuchthingas5748614`? Can you list /, /bin and
> /usr/bin?

I just looked at my code and tried something else:
@SysCmd="which python";
system(@SysCmd);

and it came back
/usr/local/bin/python

> 
> How did you learn that this system could run your Perl
> scripts? Can that source give us anything to go on here?
> If Python is not installed, do you have some avenue for
> requesting it?
> 
> We're down to long shots. Still, hosts that support Perl
> but will not support Python are getting to be the rare.
> 
> 

I've asked my host to put in a request for it.

So it seems python IS installed, but not where I thought it was.

I just tried my script with the new path, but still got a 500 server 
error. Can I trap errors to a file locally?

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