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antovinraj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All,

I want to access all the changes submitted in perforce and to display in the web page for a particular user. CGI Script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use CGI; $cgi = CGI->new; print $cgi->header; print <<EndOfHTML; <form action="post.cgi" method="POST"> <table> <tr><td>Perforce User</td> <td><select size="1" name="user"> <option name="antoine">antoine</option></select> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Start Date</td><td><input name=startdate></td> </tr><tr> <td>End Date</td><td><input name=enddate></td> </tr><tr> <td colspan=2 align=\"center\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Sub +mit\"></td> </tr></table></form>"; EndOfHTML
post.cgi:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI; $ENV{ 'PATH' } = '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin'; delete @ENV{ 'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV' }; print header; my %form; foreach my $p (param()) { $form{$p} = param($p); } my $user = $form{'user'}; my $output = system ("sudo -i -u avinodh p4 changes -u $user > /tmp/$u +ser"); print $output; print "The active user is: ", `whoami`; print end_html;

When we execute the script in the browser it is giving output as "256The active user is: www-data". Please provide your inputs. Thank You Antoine.