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CGI open of tmpfile: No such file or directory Toxalot 03-25-2008
Posted by Toxalot on March 25, 2008, 6:00 am
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 I haven't used perl in years. An old client just changed servers and
contacted me because an upload script I created no longer works.

The error message is
CGI open of tmpfile: No such file or directory

I've Googled this and I've tried putting the following at the top of
my script
BEGIN { $TempFile::TMPDIRECTORY = '/home/gfxprint/tmp'; }

There is already a world writable tmp directory in / and /var and /
home/gfxprint

/usr/tmp is a link to /var/tmp

I tried creating /home/gfxprint/usr/tmp

None of the above fixes the problem and I'm pulling my hair out.

Suggestions?

Jennifer



Posted by Gunnar Hjalmarsson on March 25, 2008, 6:12 am
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 Toxalot wrote:
> I haven't used perl in years. An old client just changed servers and
> contacted me because an upload script I created no longer works.
>
> The error message is
> CGI open of tmpfile: No such file or directory
>
> I've Googled this and I've tried putting the following at the top of
> my script
> BEGIN { $TempFile::TMPDIRECTORY = '/home/gfxprint/tmp'; }

The variable name is $CGITempFile::TMPDIRECTORY

If you encounter further difficulties, you may want to try the CPAN
module CGI::UploadEasy.

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

Posted by Toxalot on March 25, 2008, 7:00 am
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> Toxalot wrote:
> > I haven't used perl in years. An old client just changed servers and
> > contacted me because an upload script I created no longer works.
>
> > The error message is
> > CGI open of tmpfile: No such file or directory
>
> > I've Googled this and I've tried putting the following at the top of
> > my script
> > BEGIN { $TempFile::TMPDIRECTORY = '/home/gfxprint/tmp'; }
>
> The variable name is $CGITempFile::TMPDIRECTORY
>
> If you encounter further difficulties, you may want to try the CPAN
> module CGI::UploadEasy.
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> Email:http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

Thanks. That fixed it. Did the variable name change? I saw that
variable in more than one thread.

And why would I need to set it? Why can't it just find the directory
on its own? Does it have anything to do with /usr/tmp being a link and
not a directory?

Jennifer

Posted by Gunnar Hjalmarsson on March 25, 2008, 7:56 am
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Toxalot wrote:
>>
>> The variable name is $CGITempFile::TMPDIRECTORY
>
> Thanks. That fixed it. Did the variable name change?

Don't know.

> And why would I need to set it? Why can't it just find the directory
> on its own?

Maybe insufficient permissions for /var/tmp ?

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

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